한 남자 who claimed to be Timmothy Pitzen, 누가 사라졌어 2011 나이에 6, 가중 신원 도용 혐의로 징역 2 년을 선고 받았습니다., 연방 검사는 말한다.
브라이언 마이클 리니, 24, 메디나, 오하이오, was indicted by a grand jury on April 18, 2019. He pleaded guilty in January 2020 과 was sentenced Tuesday in US District Court in Cincinnati.
사건은 4 월 2019, when police responded to reports of a male acting suspiciously in a neighborhood in Newport, 켄터키, US Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio Ben Glassman told CNN at the time.
경찰이 도착했을 때, Rini told them he was Timmothy and he had escaped captors as a victim of sex trafficking, Glassman said. DNA test swabs later showed that Rini was not the boy.
CNN has reached out to Rini’s public defender, Richard Monahan, 의견을 위해.
5 월 2011, Timmothy’s mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, checked her young son out of elementary school and took him to a zoo and a Wisconsin water park. His mother’s body was found three days later in a hotel room in Rockford, 일리노이, 이상 70 miles from their home in Aurora, 일리노이.
She died by suicide, leaving behind a note that said Timmothy was with people who loved him. “You’ll never find him,” the note said.
“We know that Timmothy will absolutely be found one day and we look forward to the day that he is able to share his own story and hopefully help other people in the process,” his aunt Kara Jacob told CNN in January.
