Grandma gets prison for kidnapping

? An Overland Park woman who fled with her granddaughter 13 years ago was sentenced Friday to a year in prison.

Carol Stanton, 52, will get credit for 113 days served, meaning she would be freed after about eight more months in prison.

Stanton’s attorney, Johnson County District Defender Byron Cerrillo, said Stanton preferred to serve the prison time rather than comply with probation terms.

Stanton pleaded guilty Feb. 6 to a felony charge of aggravated interference with parental custody.

The child’s mother, Michele Stanton, who is Carol Stanton’s daughter, lives in Montana and was not in the courtroom for the sentencing. Neither was the girl, now 14.

Michele Stanton was a 16-year-old mother in Texas in 1990 when she asked her mother to care for her year-old daughter for about a month. Carol Stanton agreed. But when Michele called for her child, her mother’s telephone was disconnected and her Overland Park apartment had been cleaned out.

Her mother used several aliases during those years. She was calling herself Raegan Callahan during the last several years and was living in southern Overland Park with her teenage “daughter.”

Last year, the girl ran away from home and was found and questioned by police.