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Oregon Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Traveling Across State Lines to Have Sexual Contact with Minor

U.S. Attorney’s Office January 07, 2010
  • Southern District of Illinois (618) 628-3700

A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on January 7, 2010, PAUL R. BRADLEY, age 53, of Clackamas, Oregon, was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton, Illinois. BRADLEY was sentenced to 240 months’ imprisonment (20 years), fined $500, and placed on 10 years supervised release. BRADLEY had previously pleaded guilty to a one count Information which charged that BRADLEY traveled from the State of Oregon to Wabash County, Illinois, for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a person under eighteen years of age. The evidence was that on May 25, 2009, BRADLEY traveled from the State of Oregon, to Wabash County, Illinois. BRADLEY flew from Oregon to the Evansville, Indiana Regional Airport on May 25, 2009. He later drove to Illinois for the purpose of engaging in "illicit sexual conduct” with a minor.

The investigation in this case was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Southern Illinois Cyber Crimes Task Force, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office Crimes Against Children Task Force, the Wabash County Sheriff’s Office, the Mt. Carmel, IL Police Department, the Wabash County State’s Attorney’s Office, and other state and local law enforcement agencies.

This case is part of Project Safe Childhood, in which the United States Attorney’s Office, in conjunction with federal and state law enforcement authorities, is actively investigating and prosecuting individuals who produce, distribute, or possess child pornography, or sexually exploit children. Anyone with information concerning the use of the Internet for the purposes of possessing, producing, or trafficking in child pornography, or for the sexual exploitation of children, should contact the Federal Bureau of Investigation or their local police department.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney George A. Norwood.

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