Kevin Esterly, 45, was sentenced to 2.5 to 5 years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to misdemeanor corruption of a minor
A Pennsylvania man who frequently checked a teenager out of school without her mother's knowledge and fled to Mexico with her has been sentenced to two and a half to five years in prison.
Forty-five-year-old Kevin Esterly, a married father of four, was sentenced at an emotional hearing Monday after pleading guilty last month to misdemeanor corruption of a minor.
Two felony charges were dropped as part of the plea deal.
Esterly and the then 16-year-old teenager were found in Mexico on March 17, about two weeks after they disappeared from Allentown, Pennsylvania, where they lived.
The girl's family said the two met at church years ago, and the teenager was friends with one of Esterly's children.
Esterly apologized during his plea hearing but said the relationship was innocent. The teenager testified Monday on Esterly's behalf, saying they had no sexual contact.
Prosecutors have said she said it was her desire to flee the country, and after she told Esterly, he decided to join her.
Esterly was arrested in March after authorities tracked him and the girl, 16, down in a Mexican resort town two weeks after they disappeared from their Pennsylvania hometown
Esterly (pictured in March) pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor corruption of a minor charge in exchange for having his two felony charges dropped
'He said if I was going, he would have to go,' the teen said in court Monday, noting that Esterly was the closest thing she had to a father, according to The (Allentown) Morning Call.
'I realize Kevin made a horrible mistake and should have physically stopped me.'
The teen said that they had flown to Mexico on one-way tickets that she had purchased with her own money. Federal agents and Mexican authorities tracked them down in the Mexican resort town Playa del Carmen two weeks after they disappeared.
Lehigh County Court Judge Maria Dantos told Esterly he had ruined two families.
Esterly's estranged wife, Stacy, who filed for divorce shortly after the two were returned, testified tearfully Monday that she is struggling as a single mother, The (Allentown) Morning Call reported.
Esterly is a father of four. The teen girl he ran away with was one of his childrens' friends. The teen spoke in his support his sentencing, calling the the closest thing to a father she had
The teen said that she and Esterly (with his estranged wife Stacy and children) did not have any sexual contact and that she was intent on leaving the country and he decided to follow her
'My 11-year-old got approached on the school bus by an 8th-grader who asked if she was going to be a child molester like her father,' Stacy Esterly said.
The judge also expressed doubt about the contention that the relationship was never physical, telling Esterly that he had asked her to make 'some unreasonable leaps' about the relationship 'that I'm not willing to make.'
Prior to their disappearance, Esterly and the teen had gotten so close she often went on his family's vacations and the older man had often come to her home for meals, her mother said.
The teen had gone so far as to change school documents, listing Esterly as her step-father, enabling him to sign her out of school 10 times between November 13, 2017 and February 9, 2018, police said at the time they disappeared.
The teen's mother discovered the deception when she came to get the girl from school on February 9 and found that Esterly had already signed her out. The furious mom warned him to stay away from the teen.
Before fleeing town with the girl, Esterly withdrew $4,000 from his joint bank accounts with wife. The teen took her jewelry, passport and cash with her.
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Kevin Esterly, 45, was sentenced to 2.5 to 5 years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to misdemeanor corruption of a minor
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