WATERTOWN -- A husband and wife from Watertown will spend life in prison for bringing four children from Kentucky to New York for the purposes of sexually abusing them.
Amanda Jansen and Christopher Jansen used an Ambien and Kool-Aid cocktail on a 5 year old and 8 year old before sexually abusing them. The Jansens pled guilty to several charges last fall.
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A husband and wife each were sentenced to three concurrent life terms in federal prison for drugging and sexually abusing young children in their Watertown home after bringing them there from Kentucky.
U.S. District Judge David Hurd imposed the sentences Friday on 28-year-old Amanda and 29-year-old Christopher Jansen.
In June 2008, Christopher Jansen traveled to Kentucky to pick up four children between the ages of 3 and 13 and brought them home for a visit. Both Jansens admitted that they sexually abused the 8-year-old boy and 5-year-old girl after drugging them with Ambien.
The Jansens have also pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 1-year-old in a separate case. Christopher Jansen also has a previous conviction in Kentucky for raping a 7-year-old.
