A North Carolina man who traveled to Virginia to have sex with a 14-year-old that he’d met on Instagram will serve 12-plus years in prison.
Rayvon Birden, 29, of Raleigh, N.C., pleaded guilty in March to one count of traveling in interstate commerce for the purpose of engaging in sexually illicit conduct.
According to court documents, Birden contacted the 14-year-old victim through Instagram direct messaging and represented himself as a 16-year-old named “Nolan.”
Birden and the victim exchanged phone numbers and began communicating via text messages and Facetime regularly. Over the course of their conversations, Birden received nude images of the minor and suggested they meet up and expressed a wish to have sexual intercourse with the minor.
Birden then drove from his home in North Carolina to meet the victim at a hotel near her Virginia home, where they had sexual intercourse on multiple occasions, at least one of which Birden filmed.
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