Wesley Breeden, Sex Trafficking, Virginia 2016

A Virginia man has been sentenced to 28 months in prison for his role in a sex trafficking scheme that targeted a minor in Washington D.C.

Wesley Breeden, 30, of Springfield, Va., was sentenced by the Honorable Tanya S. Chutkan in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The sentence was handed down on an unknown date.

Breeden pled guilty to one count of traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, a crime that he committed on July 30, 2015, when he traveled from Virginia to a pre-arranged meeting place in Washington, D.C. to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor.

According to the government’s evidence, Breeden contacted an undercover officer with the FBI’s Child Exploitation Task Force through a social network site and arranged to meet for the purpose of engaging in sexual acts with a female who was a minor. When he arrived, he was arrested and has been in custody ever since.

Breeden will also be required to register as a sex offender for 25 years and will be placed on 10 years of supervised release upon completion of his prison term.

This case was brought as part of the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Childhood initiative, a nationwide effort to protect children from online exploitation and abuse.

U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Assistant Director in Charge Paul M. Abbate, and Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department Cathy L. Lanier commended the work of the MPD Detectives and Special Agents of the FBI’s Child Exploitation Task Force in bringing this case to justice.

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