Oklahoma man kidnapped his stepdaughter and kept her captive for 19 years, fathering nine children
Rosalynn Michelle McGinnis conceived two children with her stepfather while she was younger than 18 and another seven after she had turned 18
A federal grand jury in Oklahoma has indicted a 63-year-old man accused of kidnapping his stepdaughter and holding her captive for 19 years in Mexico and elsewhere while fathering her nine children.
Henri Michelle Piette is accused of kidnapping Rosalynn Michelle McGinnis in 1995 or 1996 and travelling with the intent to have sex with her, according to an indictment a grand jury in Muskogee, Oklahoma, handed up Wednesday.
“Knowing that the man who physically took 22 years from me, leaving me with a lifetime of painful challenges, has been captured makes today one of the most pivotal times of my life,” she told People magazine in an online article published on October 9.
Piette also faces state charges of first-degree rape of a victim under the age of 14, child abuse by injury and two counts of lewd molestation, according to online Wagoner County court records.
FBI agent Adam Reynolds wrote in an affidavit in the federal case that Piette first had sex with McGinnis when she was 11 or 12 in the back room of a residence in the eastern Oklahoma city of Wagoner, where she shared a bunk bed with another female.
Knowing that the man who physically took 22 years from me ... has been captured makes today one of the most pivotal times of my life
McGinnis was about 11 when Piette “took her to a van and married her” at a ceremony in Wagoner where Piette “gave her a ring,” the affidavit states.