{Owensboro , Kentucky }…Forty-six
year old Archie M. Whalen of Hancock County , Maine , has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for
transporting a 13 year old Kentucky
girl across state lines to engage in sexual activity. A jury convicted Whalen
on July 26th of taking the girl in 2009 from her home in Owensboro
to Sturgeon Bay , Wisconsin . Whalen met the girl when she
and her mother lived briefly in Maine .