By Associated Press
Published: 9/24/2009
Last Modified: 9/24/2009
(CAAI News Media)
OKLAHOMA CITY — A former Altus doctor accused of bringing his child bride to Oklahoma using false papers has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Acting U.S. Attorney Robert Troester says 51-year-old Alexander Christian Miles was sentenced Thursday for using a visa immigration document that contained false information to gain entry into the United States of a child under 18. Miles pleaded guilty in June.
An indictment says Miles met and married a 14-year-old Cambodian girl in 2001, and they moved to Altus the following year.
A federal judge dismissed the case in 2006, but prosecutors re-filed the charge.
Miles' attorney appealed on double jeopardy grounds, but an appeals court panel upheld the charge.
Miles' lawyer couldn't be reached for comment.
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