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Six Missing Elizabethtown Children Found Safe as Guardian Is Arrested on Kidnapping Charges

Police say the search followed an emergency custody bid over alleged neglect involving physical assault.

Overview

  • Cambria County state troopers stopped a 1994 Oldsmobile with Pennsylvania plate KKW-7067 around 1:55 p.m. Thursday and took Robert John Christensen Jr. into custody.
  • The six children, ages 4 to 11, were recovered unharmed following the traffic stop, according to authorities.
  • Elizabethtown police say Lancaster County Children and Youth had sought emergency custody after reporting neglect involving physical assault.
  • Christensen faces multiple felony counts, including kidnapping, interference with custody, and concealing a child's whereabouts.
  • He is being held at Lancaster County Prison on $250,000 bail, with a preliminary hearing scheduled for Nov. 18.