{"id":412970,"date":"2026-09-28T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412970\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:28:08","slug":"jacksonville-man-sentenced-to-10-years-for-trying-to-meet-13-year-old-for-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412970\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man sentenced to 10 years for trying to meet 13-year-old for sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A Jacksonville man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for attempting to entice and meet a 13-year-old child for sex, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Middle District of Florida said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Adeis Jonathan Francis, 26, also was ordered to serve 10 years of supervised release and register as a sex offender. He pleaded guilty May 28 and has remained in custody since his March 6 arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">According to court documents, an undercover FBI agent posing as a 13-year-old child communicated with Francis through a social media app and text messages between Feb. 17 and March 6. After being told the child was 13, Francis requested photos, discussed sexual activity and made plans to meet the child in person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Francis traveled to the area of the child\u2019s purported residence on March 6, where FBI agents arrested him, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">During an interview after his arrest, Francis said, \u201cI\u2019m not gonna get to go home for months\u201d and \u201cso I\u2019m going to prison,\u201d according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A Jacksonville man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for attempting to entice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-412970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}