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Man sentenced for 1999 kidnapping, sexual assault of young girl in Pa.

A man will spend 30 years behind bars for kidnapping a 10-year-old girl in a crime that haunted western Pennsylvania for decades.

Timothy Nelson Jr. was sentenced Tuesday.

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He pleaded guilty last month to kidnapping a Somerset County girl in 1999, sexually abusing her and leaving her in rural Fayette County.

Police ultimately tied Nelson to the case after he was arrested for an unrelated crime.

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