Suburban Fort Worth man, who brought condoms, lubricant to meeting with ‘girl,’ sentenced
A Saginaw man who drove to Plano intending to have sex with a person who he believed to be a 14-year-old girl was sentenced on Thursday to to 17 1/2 years in prison.
In the Eastern District of Texas, U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan sentenced Adam Rodriguez, whom in October a jury found guilty of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor.
In the three weeks before he was arrested in May, Rodriguez, 48, exchanged statements via Kik Messenger with an FBI special agent working undercover as a 14-year-old.
Rodriguez testified at his trial that he believed that he was communicating with an adult who was role playing or fantasizing about pretending to be a child, according to U.S. Attorney Stephen Cox.
In the Kik messages, Rodriguez requested photographs of the youth with whom he believed he was communicating, sent sexually explicit material and offered to “train” the girl to engage in sex acts.
Rodriguez and the special agent regularly discussed the girl’s day-to-day life, including her feelings about school, the quality of school lunch and her home life, according to a trial brief prepared by the U.S. Attorney Office.
“For his part, [Rodriguez] continued to raise the issue of sex, including by sending sexual memes to Undercover, as well as photos and videos of his nude body and engaged in sexual acts (e.g., masturbation and intercourse),” Assistant U.S. Attorney Marisa Miller wrote in the brief.
Law enforcement officers found two Trojan Magnum condoms on Rodriguez when he was arrested and sexual lubricant in the center console of his minivan, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
This story was originally published July 24, 2020 at 5:51 PM.
