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Florida man gets 24 years on sex charges
By Robert Patrick
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
08/19/2009
BENTON, ILL. - A man who drove a rental car from Florida to Belleville to pick up a 15-year-old girl he had met online was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison Wednesday.
Heriberto Torres-Rodriguez, 50, met the girl through MySpace and picked her up from Belleville East High School in May of 2008. Her disappearance triggered an Amber Alert. She was rescued days later from a home in Opa-Locka, Fla. home.
A jury found the Puerto Rican-born handyman and grandfather guilty in April of two counts of traveling in interstate commerce with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and
one count of transporting a minor in interstate commerce with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
Florida man gets 24 years on sex charges
By Robert Patrick
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
08/19/2009
BENTON, ILL. - A man who drove a rental car from Florida to Belleville to pick up a 15-year-old girl he had met online was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison Wednesday.
Heriberto Torres-Rodriguez, 50, met the girl through MySpace and picked her up from Belleville East High School in May of 2008. Her disappearance triggered an Amber Alert. She was rescued days later from a home in Opa-Locka, Fla. home.
A jury found the Puerto Rican-born handyman and grandfather guilty in April of two counts of traveling in interstate commerce with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and
one count of transporting a minor in interstate commerce with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.