MT. CLEMENS, Mich. (Reuters)
A 17-year-old boy who
impregnated his 12-year-old sister was sentenced Thursday in a
Michigan court to six months in jail and six months of home
detention, local radio reports said.
Prosecutors had dropped first-degree criminal sexual conduct
charges after the boy pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of
fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct on the hopes that it would
allow him and his family to remain in the United States.
The family, which lives in the Detroit suburb of Sterling
Heights, Michigan, emigrated to Michigan from India last year.
Detroit radio station WWJ-AM
reported that the U.S. Immigration
and Naturalization Service planned to turn over the boy to
police following sentencing in a Macomb County court in Mt.
Clemens, north of Detroit.
Prosecutors were not available to comment.
The brother and sister had been sharing one of the bedrooms in
their parent's two-bedroom apartment when she became
pregnant, officials said.
In July 1998, the girl had a late-term abortion at a clinic in
Wichita, Kansas, when she was about 29 weeks pregnant.
