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Hiawatha Woman Convicted on Child Sex Charges

By Greg Bebermeyer

08/01/2016

Jaimie Wardrup

(KNZA)--A Hiawatha woman has been convicted on a pair of child sex-related charges.

Brown County Attorney Kevin Hill says 22-year-old Jaimie Wardrup pleaded no contest Monday in Brown County District Court to one count each of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and criminal sodomy involving a child born in 2000.

Sentencing was set for September 19th .

Wardrup also face charges of aggravated interference with parental custody, felony theft and contributing to a child’s misconduct in a separate case. Hill says she to enter a plea in that case on September 19th.

Wardrup was arrested April 26th in Arkansas with three teenage runaways from the Hiawatha area who disappeared the day before. She was driving a pickup truck that had allegedly been stolen from Hiawatha.

The child sex charges were filed following an investigation by the Hiawatha Police Department and after she was extradited to Kansas.

Wardrup remains in the Brown County Jail after her bond was revoked.

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