Pennsylvania woman accused of abducting Woodstock teen faces added child pornography charges

New charge carries possible sentence of four to 15 years in prison

Lilandra L. Redman

A Pennsylvania woman accused of abducting a teenage boy from his Woodstock home appeared Friday in McHenry County court on new child pornography charges.

The Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office in Pennsylvania arrested Lilandra L. Redman, 20, on Sept. 16, and she was extradited back to Illinois late last month on a single count of child abduction. Local prosecutors can charge Redman only with offenses that allegedly occurred while the pair was in McHenry County, McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally said.

A single count of child abduction, typically punishable by one to three years in prison, didn’t immediately feel like justice for the boy’s family, according to a news release issued by Missing Persons Awareness Network President Gia Maria Wright on Jan. 29.

On Thursday, however, prosecutors approved a series of child pornography charges against Redman. According to a Woodstock police criminal complaint, Redman took multiple sexually explicit screenshots of a 16-year-old boy between March 2 and June 25.

She is accused of grooming the teenager for years before abducting him from his Woodstock home. Together the pair traveled from Illinois to Redman’s Pennsylvania home, prosecutors have said.

The new charge against Redman ­– possession of child pornography – typically is punishable by four to 15 years in prison.

Redman, of the 2900 block of Versailles Avenue, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, met the boy in an online chatroom years earlier, police have said. The pair talked on social media and a disposable phone that Redman provided the boy via another student, according to a news release the Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office in Pennsylvania issued in September.

Redman is accused of taking an Uber on Aug. 2 to the boy’s Woodstock home and later boarding a Pennsylvania-bound plane with the teen.

The boy left behind a note claiming that he traveled to New York City with a woman named Jessica. He then reset his phone and left it in Illinois, police have said.

The boy’s parents reported him missing the same day.

On Aug. 3, police found the boy alone at Redman’s home and reunited him with his family.

Redman is due back in court Feb. 24.