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Updated: Thursday, 28 Jul 2011, 12:33 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 28 Jul 2011, 12:33 PM EDT
ADRIAN, Mich. (AP) - A southern Michigan man has pleaded no contest to three counts of unlawful imprisonment in the disappearance of his three young sons.
John Skelton appeared Thursday in Lenawee County Circuit Court in Adrian.
He is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 15. Skelton's attorney says his client could receive up to 15 years in prison. Kidnapping and parental kidnapping charges were dropped.
A preliminary examination was set to start next week.
Nine-year-old Andrew, 7-year-old Alexander and 5-year-old Tanner Skelton have been missing from Morenci, near the Ohio border, since Thanksgiving when their father didn't return them to their mother after a scheduled visitation. Morenci's police chief has called their disappearance a murder investigation.
Skelton has not told authorities where the boys can be found.
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