An Oregon man who met two 15-year-old girls on Snapchat, sexually abused them while traveling through three states, and ultimately abandoned them in a park has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison, prosecutors say. It was announced on Thursday.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon announced Thursday that Albert Wayne Johnson was sentenced to 12 1/2 years in federal prison and 10 years of supervised release.
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According to court documents, on August 8, 2022, Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a report of two minors left at a park in the Portland suburb of Bowling, Oregon.
The girls told deputies they met Johnson on Snapchat and that he drove them from Washington through Idaho to Oregon. According to court documents, Johnson sexually abused two people at a motel in Othello, Washington, and one at a campground near La Grande, Oregon.
After arriving at Boring, Johnson left his children at the Barton Park campground and never returned.
Johnson, 42, was arrested on August 30, 2022, at his home in La Grande on an outstanding parole violation warrant. Surveillance camera footage from the Othello motel showed Johnson with two girls, documents said.
In November of that year, a federal grand jury in Portland found that a person traveling across state lines to engage in sexual activity with a minor, transporting a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, and It remanded three counts accusing him of committing a crime. He is registered as a sex offender.
As part of an agreement with prosecutors, Johnson pleaded guilty earlier this year to transporting a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
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Johnson’s lawyer, Elizabeth Daley, said in a court filing that Johnson did not physically assault or coerce the girls and suggested a sentence of just over 11 years in prison would be sufficient.
Prosecutors said Johnson was convicted in 2018 of luring and attempting to sexually abuse a minor and was placed on state supervision in August 2022. He also allegedly violated the terms of his release, including changing his address without permission and failing to complete sex offender and substance abuse treatment.