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Man faces prison term in toddler kidnapping case

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CLINTON – A man who broke into a woman’s house and snatched from her arms the 15-month-old child he fathered by her has received four concurrent four-year prison sentences for the July 2009 incident.

William T. Wilder, 24, of Clinton pleaded guilty to two counts of kidnapping and one count each of aggravated assault and aggravated burglary.

Wilder broke into Kimberly Wilder’s Clinton house and locked himself in her bedroom with her and her three children, records show.

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