Convicted child abductor Randall Hopley has escaped dangerous-offender status and the indefinite prison term it carries. Hopley, who abducted three-year-old Kienan Hebert from the bedroom of his unlocked home in Sparwood, B.C., in 2011, was instead declared a long-term offender on Friday. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Heather Holmes sentenced him to a total of seven years in prison followed by 10 years of supervision, The Canadian Press reports. With time already served taken into account, Hebert faces five years behind bars. The Crown had argued Hopley, who had a record of sexually assaulting children, should be declared a dangerous offender because he posed a high risk to reoffend. It would...
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