George Albert Romer, Jr., Sex Trafficking of a Minor, West Virginia 2019

Buckhannon Man, George Albert Romer, Jr., Sentenced to 14 Years for Sex Trafficking of a Minor

BECKLEY, W.Va. – A local man has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for a sex crime against a minor.

George Albert Romer, Jr., 63, of Buckhannon, was convicted of attempted sex trafficking of a minor following a jury trial in June 2021.

The evidence at trial revealed that on October 31, 2019, Romer began communicating via a dating application with a person he understood to be a 15-year-old girl in Lewisburg, West Virginia. During the messages, Romer offered to pay the girl $100 to engage in sexual intercourse.

On November 1, 2019, Romer drove from Buckhannon to Lewisburg and rented a hotel room in order to meet the minor. He was placed under arrest shortly thereafter.

Romer was sentenced to 168 months in federal prison. Following his release from prison, he will be placed on supervised release for 15 years and will be required to register as a sex offender.

The sentence was imposed by United States District Judge Frank W. Volk. The case was prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative of the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Assistant United States Attorneys Jennifer Rada Herrald and Courtney Cremeans handled the prosecution. United States Attorney William S. Thompson commended the investigative work of the FBI Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.

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