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Randy Taylor, 35, was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison for transporting a 12-year-old girl across state lines for sexual conduct.
Taylor solicited the minor online, picked her up in his 18-wheeler, and took her to Louisiana where he recorded a sexual interaction.
The girl was found safe at a Mississippi truck stop and returned to her family in North Carolina.
The FBI and multiple law enforcement agencies worked together to track and locate the child.
A federal court judge has sentenced a man for the abduction of a 12-year-old North Carolina girl who was found by authorities in the cab of an 18-wheeler at a Mississippi truck stop in October 2024.
U.S. Senior District Judge Sharion Aycock sentenced Randy Taylor, 35 , of Columbia, South Carolina, to 210 months (17