From the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore:
William Ray Wagner, age 33, a resident of Harford County, pleaded guilty today to use of interstate facilities to coerce a minor to engage in sex.
The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Kevin Perkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey R. Gahler; and Harford County State’s Attorney Joseph I. Cassilly.
According to his plea agreement, in the fall of 2014, Wagner was communicating on Facebook with an individual he believed was a 14 year old girl who lived with her parents. The individual was actually an undercover Harford County detective.
In early October 2014, Wagner attempted to meet the individual to engage in sex, and used his computer to initiate graphic discussions about sex. He ultimately arranged to meet the individual at a restaurant in Bel Air on October 13, and then walk to a nearby trail to engage in sex. On that date, Wagner arrived at the agreed upon meeting location with a blanket and two condoms. He was arrested.
Wagner had previously been convicted of unlawful contact with a minor in 2009 and as a result, was required to register as a sex offender in Maryland. In April 2014, Wagner was arrested in Harford County and charged with failure to register as a sex offender.
As part of his plea agreement, Wagner must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
Wagner and the government have agreed that if the Court accepts the plea agreement Wagner will be sentenced to 10 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release. U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III has scheduled sentencing for September 9, 2016 at 2:00 p.m.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc. For more information about internet safety education, please visit www.justice.gov/psc and click on the “resources” tab on the left of the page.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein commended the FBI, Harford County Sheriff‘s Office and Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office for their work in the investigation and prosecution. Mr. Rosenstein thanked Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul E. Budlow, who is prosecuting the case.
Castration is warranted
These creeps won’t need a computer anymore, now these guys can go freely into the ladies showers and bathrooms claiming they feel like a female.
Thanks Democrats –
Terrane please try to stick wit the facts. The perp was not a transgender male. And can you please show us how trans gender males are attracted to young girls?
Using a restroom with a transgender person carries much less risk than sharing the mens room with a gay republican pedophile, and that is a proven fact.
but a convicted sex offender CAN go into the rest room stall right next to your daughter. irregardless of lbgt, the fact is a person can go into any rest room they feel comfortable with. and target will even welcome them.
No they can’t but you keep believing what Fox news is telling you.
What prevents them from doing so?
The same thing that prevented Denny Hastert from sticking his wiener in your sons butt on the wrestling team.
A total nonsensical answer Sandusky.
The simple truth is, nothing will prevent a male from entering the ladies room and claiming that they identify as a female, just as nothing prior to this prevented it. The only difference now is they may do so without repercussions if claiming identity as a female.
PS, I don’t have any sons.
I do have a legitimate question. Who is standing outside the bathroom deciding who actually qualifies as transgender? I genuinely want to know who is determining this- I’m willing to bet that no one is, because doing so would be some kind of violation. So, in that case, literally anyone could walk into any bathroom they want now. If I am wrong, please let me know.
In answer to your question, and in my opinion, there will be no one deciding “prior” to bathroom entry who qualifies as transgender. That said, prior to this latest edict, there was no one controlling entry into the bathrooms. The only thing that previously existed were the consequences of doing so. Now, it would appear, those consequences have gone away as long as you say that you are using the bathroom of the gender you now identify with.
This prevert should say that he age-identifies as a 12-year-old boy; as a minor, I don’t think he can be accused of trying to have sex with another minor. If you can change your gender just by declaration, you should be able to change your age by declaration, too.
Nothing to see here folks. Just another paranoid HarCo bigot dragging out the strawmen again.
Question is, what kind of sentence did he get in 2009 besides having to register as a sex offender? Not much, since he was on the streets to commit this crime.
Knowing the Sht State of Maryland, wrist slap, $10 Fine and make him volunteer with the boy scouts.