Colorado man Brock Purviance sentenced in child sex case
Colorado man sentenced in child sex case
Article Last Updated: 01/04/2007 08:49:17 PM AKST
A Colorado man has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for traveling to Alaska to have sex with a child more than two years ago.Thirty year-old Brock Jon Purviance of Arvada, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday on the federal charge of travel to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a child.
Purviance had been a guitar teacher at a music school in Colorado.
Federal prosecutors say Purviance met a 13-year-old Alaska girl in an Internet music chat room and engaged her in online conversations for more than a year.
He traveled to Anchorage to have sex with her in August 2004.
Prosecutors say that Purviance admitted in his plea agreement that he persistently engaged in online sexual conversations with the child before he traveled to Alaska from Colorado for their meeting.
Prosecutors say he admitted discussing in graphic detail how he could perform sex acts and directed the child on how she could perform sex acts.
Federal District Court Judge John Sedwick said Purviance had a clean criminal record but also noted criminal conduct by him in 2000 that was not prosecuted.
Prosecutors say Purviance met a 14-year-old Colorado child in an Internet chat room and had sex with her.
Besides a 71-month-prison term, Sedwick also imposed 25 years of supervised release, with special conditions limiting Purviance’suse of the Internet and his contact with children under 18 years of age.
He is also required to register as a sex offender.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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