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Published: June 02, 2009 05:40 pm    print this story  

Nicholas man going to prison for soliciting teenage girls over Internet

By Jessica Farrish
Register-Herald Reporter

A Nicholas County man charged in May 2007 with soliciting 13-year-old girls over the Internet will spend at least 10 years in prison following a Tuesday hearing in federal court.

Aaron Cain Adkins, 36, of Summersville, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Charleston to attempting to persuade and entice a minor to engage in sexual intercourse, according to court spokeswoman Tracy Chapman.

The penalty for the felony is a minimum of 10 years and up to a life sentence in prison, and a $250,000 fine, Chapman said.

According to Chapman, a joint federal and state investigation revealed that in May 2007 Adkins created a MySpace account purporting to be a 16-year-old female. He then began contacting two 13-year-old girls via the Internet through the minors’ MySpace account.

Using the false identity, Adkins told the minors “she” had a friend who would pay $300 to have sex with the girls. Adkins asked when the minors would be willing to meet and suggested meeting near Kanawha Falls. ...



See the complete story in Wednesday's edition of The Register-Herald.

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