Probation follows attempted kidnapping

CLEVELAND (AP) -- A man has been sentenced to five years of probation for taking a 2-year-old girl that he said need to be saved from her mother's troubled home.
Nicholas Stokes, 61, of New Philadelphia, also was fined $2,500 when he was sentenced Wednesday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. Stokes pleaded guilty to attempted kidnapping May 5.
The girl's mother told investigators that Stokes gave her $2,000 in back child support the girl's father owed in exchange for the girl, Savannah.
Stokes said planned to take the girl to her father, but kept her when he couldn't find the man.
In April, Fuerst sentenced the girl's mother, Rosemary Stokes, 25, also known as Rosemary Busch, to five years of probation and six months in a drug treatment facility after she was convicted of interference of custody and endangering children.
A juvenile court is determining custody.