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Then go the route that she's prosecuted and convicted solely by the Virginia courts and not the feds. In the Virginia courts the sentence (at least in current law, one would have to review the law at the time of the kidnapping too) most kidnapping appears to be a class 5 felony with sentences of 1-10 years. So in Virginia she could perhaps hope to convince a judge to sentence her to just a couple of years of prison followed by a period of parole.