WEST DUNDEE — A former West Dundee woman was sentenced to prison for abducting her two minor children in 2004.
Crystel A. Strelioff, 53, was sentenced Friday by 16th Circuit Court Associate Judge T. Jordan Gallagher to three years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.
A Kane County jury had convicted Strelioff of four counts of child abduction — each a Class 4 felony — after a three-day trial in February. She later was arrested on a warrant and has been in custody at the Kane County Jail since May, according to the state's attorney's office.
In February 2004, Strelioff intentionally violated a court order by taking her two children from the jurisdiction of the Kane County court to California, according to authorities. Her last known address was in Newhall, Calif.
The court order was issued by a Kane County judge in an April 2000 custody ruling. The ruling noted that a psychologist had reported Strelioff's "conduct is a form of parental alienation toward" her ex-husband. For that and other reasons, custody of the two children was granted to their father, Brian Strelioff, the judge's ruling said.
One child is no longer a minor, and the other is under 13, according to the state's attorney's office.
In addition to the prison sentence, Strelioff was ordered to pay $73,340 in restitution to Brian Streliof. She was given day-for-day sentencing, as well as credit for 185 days already served in the Kane County Jail.
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