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Looking at the court records, the sentencing's probably in part due to the 'endangering welfare' bit -- it's not in most of the reporting, but there's pretty overt evidence of both neglect, and directly handing the kid to an incredibly drunken guy who still was more concerned about the child's welfare than the alleged parents.
That said, if I've got the names right, the difference in sentencing may just reflect Urban already being on probation for "receiving" a stolen bike (... I'd be dollars to donuts he just stole it) and a previous domestic violence arrest. Ehlers had a shoplifting arrest, too (and maybe jumped bail?), but that's not going to weigh as heavily in most cases, even ones as weird as this.
I can't see anything about the disposition of the kid, but I'd be very surprised if the kid didn't go straight to child protective services. The six-pack of beer wasn't really part of the whole 'adoption-for-sale' gimmick... but it was part of loaning the kid out overnight, instead. Optimistically, that's just an incredible level of neglect by a man and woman too dumb to realize that concerned bystanders were trying to get the kid into a safer location... but pessimistically, they might just not have cared why people were wanting to borrow a 2-month-old baby for one night.
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