A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to decades in prison after taking a Kentucky teen across state lines to have sex with her.
In a news release Tuesday, the Department of Justice said Bailey Michael Stouter, 23, was sentenced to two decades in federal prison on March 18 for transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and online enticement of a minor.
The judge also ordered Stouter to pay $3,000 in restitution to the victim and will be on a lifetime term of supervised release.
According to the DOJ, Stouter used a social media app to meet a 14-year-old girl from Bullitt County and arranged to pick her up from her home and drive her to Pennsylvania for a sexual encounter.
A missing person report was issued for the girl, and she was found a few days later with Stouter in Fayetteville, Penn.
“Online predators are a plague,” U.S. Attorney Kyle Bumgarner said in a statement. “They manipulate, exploit and abuse our children. Law enforcement will leave no stone unturned in searching for these predators.”
There is no parole in the federal system, the DOJ added.
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