Federal charges filed against man accused of abducting Beaver Dam teenager

The man accused of abducting a pregnant Beaver Dam teen and taking her across state lines now faces charges in a federal court in Arkansas. 40-year-old Gary Day is charged in the Eastern District of Arkansas with enticement to travel to engage in criminal sexual activity, enticement by use of a computer to engage in criminal sexual activity, transportation of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity, traveling with intent to engage in unlawful sex with a minor, production of child pornography and possession of child pornography. Day also faces state-level felony charges in Wisconsin and Nebraska. He is accused of taking teenager Sophia Franklin from her Beaver Dam home on Feb. 2. Franklin is pregnant and Day is believed to be the father of her unborn child. Online court records show Day is scheduled to appear in a courtroom in Little Rock, Ark. on May 27 for an arraignment. An arraignment hearing for his case in Wisconsin is set for June 3.