{"id":147141,"date":"2026-03-24T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147141\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:12:07","slug":"man-sentenced-for-luring-14-year-old-kentucky-girl-to-pennsylvania-for-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147141\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced for luring 14-year-old Kentucky girl to Pennsylvania for sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA 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&#8217;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 &#8220;sexual encounter.&#8221;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.\u201cOnline 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\u2019s Office will aggressively prosecute these deviants,&#8221; said U.S. Attorney Kyle Bumgarner.There is no parole in the federal system.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tLOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A man will spend the next two decades behind bars after he lured a teenage girl from Bullitt County to Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Attorney&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>He then drove her out of state to Pennsylvania for a &#8220;sexual encounter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities issued a missing person report for the girl, and she was found a few days later with Stouter in Fayetteville, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>A judge sentenced Stouter to 20 years in federal prison and a lifetime term of supervised release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnline 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\u2019s Office will aggressively prosecute these deviants,&#8221; said U.S. Attorney Kyle Bumgarner.<\/p>\n<p>There is no parole in the federal system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man will spend the next two decades behind bars after he lured a teenage girl from Bullitt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67042,67043,464,4586,1856,67044,1399,2008,67041,28,30,29,1364,67040,63536,67039,78],"class_list":["post-147141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-14-year-old-kentucky-girl","tag-fayetteville","tag-federal-prison","tag-judge","tag-law-enforcement","tag-lifetime-term","tag-man","tag-office","tag-online-predator","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-sex","tag-stouter","tag-supervised-release","tag-teenage-girl","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}