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Woman Charged with Enticing a Minor to Engage in Sexual Activity

U.S. Attorney’s Office September 23, 2010
  • Western District of New York (716) 843-5700

BUFFALO, NY—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr announced today that Angie L. Jenkins, 35, of Lowell, MI, has been charged with enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity. The charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum penalty of life.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron J. Mango, who is handling the case, stated that the charge stems from an online relationship that developed between Jenkins and a 16-year-old minor victim in October of 2009. The relationship began through the online video game World of Warcraft and progressed into online chats, e-mails, and telephone calls. During conversations, Jenkins told the victim that she was 21 years old. In the spring of 2010, the conversations turned sexual in nature and in late May of 2010, Jenkins told the victim that she wanted to travel to Buffalo so that they could engage in sexual activity. On June 11, 2010, she traveled from Michigan to Buffalo, met up with the victim and had sex in a parked car outside a department store in Amherst, NY. The relationship was discovered after the minor’s parents, upon reviewing his cell phone, noticed multiple calls from an out of state number. They contacted the FBI after learning Jenkins traveled to Buffalo. Jenkins was arrested on August 31, 2010. A detention hearing will be held on Friday, September 24 at 3:00 p.m. before the Honorable Hugh B. Scott, U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge.

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 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), 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. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

The arrest was the culmination of an investigation on the part of special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under the direction of James H. Robertson, Special Agent in Charge.

The fact that a defendant has been charged with a crime is merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

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