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Rhode Island man sent to prison for meeting minor in Canada
March 11, 2021
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PROVIDENCE R.I. (AP) A Rhode Island man who traveled to Canada to have sex with a 13-year-old girl he met online has been sentenced to six years in prison, federal prosecutors say.
Herbert Rodas, 24, of Pawtucket, communicated with the girl for several months on social media and exchanged explicit photos with the girl before traveling to Winnipeg in April 2019 to meet her, according to a statement Wednesday from the U.S. attorney s office in Providence.
He flew to Canada, paid cash for a hotel room, and met the girl in the room on several occasions over three days to engage in sexual activity, proscutors said.
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AUGUSTA, GA: A federal grand jury has indicted a Graniteville, S.C. teacher on additional federal charges related to the initial allegation that charged him with transporting a minor across state lines for sex.
Jonathan Eugene Grantham, 45, of Graniteville, S.C., is named in a four-count indictment charging him with Sex Trafficking of a Minor; Coercion and Enticement of a Minor to Engage in Sexual Activity; Travel with Intent to Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct; and Transportation with Intent to Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity, said David H. Estes, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. The sex trafficking charge carries a minimum penalty upon conviction of 15 years in prison, and a maximum penalty of life in prison. There is no parole in the federal syste