Rhode Island man sent to prison for meeting minor in Canada
March 11, 2021
FacebookTwitterEmail
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.