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Mother in Grants Pass kidnapping case released from jail The Associated Press Ruth Christine, accused with her husband of kidnapping three of their daughters at gunpoint from state social workers, has been released from jail after her father posted bail. Christine was freed from the Douglas County Jail in Roseburg on Sunday after her father, Philip Medland, posted the minimum bail in the kidnapping case being tried there. He also posted the minimum in a child mistreatment case being tried in Grants Pass. Court papers listed Christine's address as a Jacksonville post office box. Christine and her husband, Brian Christine, have been in jail since their arrests last August in Montana, where the children were also found. They are scheduled to go on trial April 30 in Douglas County Court in the kidnapping case. The mistreatment case is scheduled for July 9. That case accuses the couple of abusing their three daughters in 2000 while living in a converted city bus they had driven to Grants Pass from Indiana. Child welfare authorities took custody of the girls after the charges were filed. Last August, after a birthday visit, Brian Christine allegedly followed the social workers driving the girls back to a foster home and kidnapped his children at gunpoint at an Interstate 5 rest stop. Ruth Christine is accused of helping her husband. The girls have been put in the custody of her parents, who live in England. Mail Tribune Home | Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Dow Jones & Co., Inc. | Privacy | Contact Us Copyright � 2001 Mail Tribune, Inc.