Federal pen next site for Web predator Brock Purviance
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Federal pen next site for Web predator
MAXIMUM: A Colorado man met a minor online and traveled to Alaska to have sex with her in 2004.
Published: January 5, 2007
Last Modified: January 5, 2007 at 03:11 PM
A Colorado music teacher was sentenced this week to more than five years in federal prison for traveling to Alaska to have sex with a child he met on the Internet.
Brock Purviance of Arvada, Colo., was convicted of flying to Alaska in August 2004 to have sex with a 15-year-old girl he met in an online chat room, federal prosecutors said.
According to a press release from the U.S. attorney’s office, U.S. District Judge John Sedwick gave Purviance the maximum sentence of 71 months in prison because of evidence that Purviance had committed other crimes before, even though he had no previous criminal convictions. Purviance admitted that in 2000 he met a 14-year-old Colorado girl on the Internet and met with her for sex, according to the U.S. attorney’s statement.
After Purviance, who is in his 30s, is released from prison, he will have 25 years of supervised release, prosecutors said. His use of the Internet will be limited and his contact with children will also be limited.
Prosecutors say Purviance, a guitar teacher, met an Alaska girl who was 13 at the time in an Internet music chat room and carried on online chats and telephone conversations with her for more than a year. Purviance conversed with the girl in explicit and graphic language, then flew to Alaska while her parents were out of state at a funeral. The two had sex, prosecutors say.
Purviance was charged with the crime this past July and pleaded no contest in October. It was unclear Thursday how authorities found out about the relationship.
Local and federal authorities in Anchorage in recent years have cracked down on people who prey on youngsters over the Internet. Kids are often online unsupervised, where they reveal many details about their lives and become easy targets unbeknownst to their parents. The Anchorage Police Department has even set up a special unit, dedicated full-time to snagging the predators.
Daily News reporter Megan Holland can be reached at mrholland@adn.com.
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