Law has to seek truth in US kidnap case

A US federal grand jury indicted Brendt Christensen on a count of kidnapping on Wednesday in connection with the disappearance of Zhang Yingying, a 26-year-old Chinese research student at the University of Illinois, and who was last seen at its Urbana-Champaign campus on June 9.

Christensen will now formally enter a plea to the charge at an arraignment scheduled for July 20.

The penalty for kidnapping is up to life in prison if convicted. And for many in China, it is an open and shut case.