Former Wheaton woman pleads guilty to abducting her daughter in 2017

A woman accused of kidnapping her daughter and found almost six years later because of a crime TV show, pleaded guilty Monday morning to child abduction.

Heather Unbehaun was due to have a jury trial start Monday. On Friday afternoon, it appeared the trial would happen, as she was arraigned and entered a plea of “not guilty.”

But as potential jurors waited in a lounge to be questioned, Unbehaun changed her plea.

On Friday, Unbehaun lost a motion she filed to replace her attorney, whom she called ineffective. Kane County Judge David Kliment also prohibited Unbehaun and her attorneys from arguing that the custody orders from March 2017 and July 2017 were invalid and unconstitutional.

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