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Ex-Marine Awaits Extradition to England
Aired July 17, 2003 - 14:28 ET
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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Ex-Marine Toby Studabaker says he never had sex with 12-year-old Shevaun Pennington, the British girl he met on the Internet. Studabaker was picked up in Frankfurt, Germany and faces child abduction charges in England.
ITN's Adriane Britton is in Frankfurt, where Studabaker has been telling his version of an Internet romance that led to an international manhunt.
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ADRIANE BRITTON, ITN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): As the police van brought Toby Studabaker to court, photographers jostled to get a picture of the man who has been at the center of an international police hunt. Yet there was only a brief glimpse of the former U.S. Marine in a baseball cap walking from the van into the building.
Studabaker, filmed here by CCTV cameras arriving at Manchester Airport last Saturday, told court officials he did not assault 12- year-old Shevaun, who he's accused of abducting.
CLAUS MICHAEL ULLRICH, CRIMINAL DEFENSE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN: He said he has no sexual connection to that girl. When he read in the newspaper that the police was looking for the girl, he put her in the airplane from Stuttgart to Manchester.
BRITTON (on camera): What will happen as far as extradition is concerned?
ULLRICH: He agreed to the informal extradition.
BRITTON (voice-over): Studabaker said he believed the 12-year- old was 18.
In this small Frankfurt courtroom, more details emerged about his arrest. This is how the court would have looked, as the American claimed how he was told by the FBI to make his way to the U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt.
(on camera): For British detectives, a sense of urgency grew as he approached the consulate. They had to get German police to arrest him immediately, because once he was inside those gates, he might have argued he was on American soil, and should therefore be taken back to the United States for any extradition hearing to take place, and that would have been a very lengthy process. (voice-over): His detention in Germany would now be relatively brief. Had he contested extradition, there would have been months, perhaps a year of legal rangling. A higher court will now determine when to release him to British police.
But as Studabaker spends his first night at the Vitterstadt (ph) Prison south of Frankfurt, court officials were indicating he could be extradited within four to 10 days.
Adriane Britton, ITV News, Frankfurt.
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Aired July 17, 2003 - 14:28 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Ex-Marine Toby Studabaker says he never had sex with 12-year-old Shevaun Pennington, the British girl he met on the Internet. Studabaker was picked up in Frankfurt, Germany and faces child abduction charges in England.
ITN's Adriane Britton is in Frankfurt, where Studabaker has been telling his version of an Internet romance that led to an international manhunt.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ADRIANE BRITTON, ITN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): As the police van brought Toby Studabaker to court, photographers jostled to get a picture of the man who has been at the center of an international police hunt. Yet there was only a brief glimpse of the former U.S. Marine in a baseball cap walking from the van into the building.
Studabaker, filmed here by CCTV cameras arriving at Manchester Airport last Saturday, told court officials he did not assault 12- year-old Shevaun, who he's accused of abducting.
CLAUS MICHAEL ULLRICH, CRIMINAL DEFENSE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN: He said he has no sexual connection to that girl. When he read in the newspaper that the police was looking for the girl, he put her in the airplane from Stuttgart to Manchester.
BRITTON (on camera): What will happen as far as extradition is concerned?
ULLRICH: He agreed to the informal extradition.
BRITTON (voice-over): Studabaker said he believed the 12-year- old was 18.
In this small Frankfurt courtroom, more details emerged about his arrest. This is how the court would have looked, as the American claimed how he was told by the FBI to make his way to the U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt.
(on camera): For British detectives, a sense of urgency grew as he approached the consulate. They had to get German police to arrest him immediately, because once he was inside those gates, he might have argued he was on American soil, and should therefore be taken back to the United States for any extradition hearing to take place, and that would have been a very lengthy process. (voice-over): His detention in Germany would now be relatively brief. Had he contested extradition, there would have been months, perhaps a year of legal rangling. A higher court will now determine when to release him to British police.
But as Studabaker spends his first night at the Vitterstadt (ph) Prison south of Frankfurt, court officials were indicating he could be extradited within four to 10 days.
Adriane Britton, ITV News, Frankfurt.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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