Unidentified Teen Girl - 16 yo - New Paltz (NW of Poughkeepsie) NY

HAMILTON - An Ontario man has been arrested and charged in the U.S. with the rape of a 16-year-old girl he met online.

Police in New Paltz, N.Y. say Stephen T. Rodgers first met the girl
on a social networking site and then drove from Canada to meet her.


The pair checked into a New Paltz motel where police allege they
engaged in "sexual contact" considered inappropriate due to the girl's age.

Police were called to a reported disturbance at the hotel Saturday
evening and arrived to find the victim's mother looking for her
daughter, police said in a news release.

Thirty-two-year-old Rodgers, who is from Hamilton, Ont., has been
charged with rape in the third degree, which is considered a felony in the U.S.

He was arraigned and remanded to the Ulster County Jail on $950 cash bail and is to return to court Jan. 18.

New Paltz police say they are working with Canadian authorities to investigate further.

New Paltz is located some 637 kilometres southeast of Hamilton.http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/ontario-man-arrested-charged-with-rape-of-us-teenager-he-met-online-113850114.html

Posters note: This is becoming so common. The predators are loving the internet! I can't believe he only has to come up with $950 bond. He'll flee back to Canada if he gets out and then cost a fortune to find and get back to the USA. I don't give a rat's behind if the girl was there by her own choice. This guy is a sexual predator and should be treated by the judge accordingly and these creeps need to be made an example of with a very long sentence so they might think twice before they do it.