A man will spend the next two decades behind bars after he lured a teenage girl from Bullitt County to Pennsylvania. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky, Bailey Michael Stouter, 23, of Pennsylvania, used a social media app to meet a 14-year-old girl and arranged to pick her up from her home in 2024.He then drove her out of state to Pennsylvania for a “sexual encounter.”Authorities issued a missing person report for the girl, and she was found a few days later with Stouter in Fayetteville, Pennsylvania.A judge sentenced Stouter to 20 years in federal prison and a lifetime term of supervised release.“Online predators are a plague. They manipulate, exploit and abuse our children. Law enforcement will leave no stone unturned in searching for these predators. The United States Attorney’s Office will aggressively prosecute these deviants,” said U.S. Attorney Kyle Bumgarner.There is no parole in the federal system.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —
A man will spend the next two decades behind bars after he lured a teenage girl from Bullitt County to Pennsylvania.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky, Bailey Michael Stouter, 23, of Pennsylvania, used a social media app to meet a 14-year-old girl and arranged to pick her up from her home in 2024.
He then drove her out of state to Pennsylvania for a “sexual encounter.”
Authorities issued a missing person report for the girl, and she was found a few days later with Stouter in Fayetteville, Pennsylvania.
A judge sentenced Stouter to 20 years in federal prison and a lifetime term of supervised release.
“Online predators are a plague. They manipulate, exploit and abuse our children. Law enforcement will leave no stone unturned in searching for these predators. The United States Attorney’s Office will aggressively prosecute these deviants,” said U.S. Attorney Kyle Bumgarner.
There is no parole in the federal system.