Man Pleads Guilty to Traveling to District of Columbia to Have Sex with Under-Aged Child

According to a factual proffer of evidence presented as part of the court proceeding, the defendant represented himself on Facebook as a 19-year-old in November 2011, when he met the victim, a 14-year-old girl from Washington, D.C. During the month-long chat on Facebook, the minor gave Drew her name, address, name of school and other identifying information. Drew told the girl that he wanted to come to her house to have sex with her. When he showed up, the girl refused to have sex with him. Thereafter, the defendant threatened the minor that he was going to distribute naked pictures of her to her school and family if she didn’t let him have sex with her. After weeks of repeated contacts via Facebook, phone calls, and in-person visits to her school and home, the victim told her mother everything that happened. Her mother alerted the police, and Drew subsequently was arrested in December 2011.

Drew later admitted to communicating with the minor on Facebook and to traveling from Maryland to the minor’s residence in for the purpose of having sexual contact with her.