Lancaster County, Pa. — A 36-year-old Lancaster County man faces kidnapping and multiple other charges after he drove away with his six children to avoid Child & Youth Services, according to KDKA.
Robert Christensen Jr. was charged with kidnapping, interfering with child custody, concealing the whereabouts of a child and obstructing justice after the incident Wednesday night. Court documents show he faces 24 charges in total, 18 of them felonies.
Authorities said Christensen abused the children, who range in age from 4 to 11. When he learned CYS planned to take emergency custody, he told the children’s mother he would not allow it and left their home on West High Street in Elizabethtown Borough with the children…