Woman who fled DuPage court gets year in prison

A West Chicago woman who tried to flee a DuPage County courtroom won’t have to face another judge for a year: She was sentenced Tuesday to that amount of time prison.

Kristine Juline, 29, had been sentenced to probation and periodic imprisonment after pleading guilty in January to heroin possession and endangering the life or health of a child.

After testing positive for opiates, alcohol and marijuana, she was called back into court on May 8 but took off running when a judge ordered her taken into custody. A sheriff’s deputy quickly corralled her.

On Tuesday, Juline admitted she violated probation by fleeing court, testing positive for drugs and failing to take required drug tests. Judge Blanche Hill Fawell resentenced her to a year in prison.

Juline’s initial arrest happened after she left her toddler daughter locked in a car on a hot August day last year while she went behind a Home Depot in Naperville to commit prostitution. In court Tuesday, she acknowledged she is a drug addict.