ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man who was a poster child for victimized children has been sentenced to at least 25 years in prison for raping and choking a 10-year-old girl.
Adam Croote, of New Scotland, pleaded guilty in March to attacking a child he was babysitting. The Times Union reports (http://bit.ly/JB6Lyf) he was sentenced Friday.
Croote’s life story is horrible.
At age 2, his father killed his mother and left him alone with her body.
His maternal grandparents abducted him during a custody fight. His face was on missing-child fliers for years until they were captured.
At 7, he and his paternal grandmother witnessed President Clinton signing a policy putting missing-children posters in federal buildings.
