Now, Digges, 41, has been sentenced to 29 years in federal prison on a charge of coercion and enticement of a minor, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced in an Oct. 24 news release.

In 2020, prosecutors say Christopher Digges, 41, befriended an economically vulnerable woman and moved in with her and her child in 2021 after offering to help them by paying rent.

Little information about Digges’s success or failure appeared over the next 200 years, but an article in the June 1952 newsletter of the Historical Society of Carroll County shed light on what ...