A Webster man has been sentenced to 87 months in prison for enticing a minor to perform sexual acts.
Joshua Stewart, 24, of Webster, N.Y., was convicted of enticing a minor to perform sexual acts and was sentenced to 87 months in prison and 20 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
According to Assistant U.S. Attorney John J. Field, who handled the case, Stewart used his cell phone to send texts to a 13-year-old girl on two separate occasions in 2010 to entice her to have sex with him.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006.
Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.
The sentencing is the culmination of an investigation on the part of Special Agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge James C. Spero, and the New York State Police, Troop E, under the direction of Major Mark Koss.
For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
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Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release ↗
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