By Heather Bell Editor CHRISTIANSBURG – A Christiansburg man has been sentenced to 50 years, and will serve 35 years, in prison for the 2025 sexual assault and abduction of a woman in a Christiansburg motel. Joseph Nathan Penn, of Christiansburg, was sentenced for animate object sexual penetration, abduction, strangulation, assault and battery and destruction of property in Montgomery County Circuit Court on Sept. 23. According to information released by the Montgomery County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office, the sentencing stems from...