Press Release
OAKLAND PARK RESIDENT SENTENCED FOR INTERSTATE TRAVEL TO ENGAGE IN SEX WITH MINOR
May 28, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Bill McCollum, Florida Attorney General, Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Mitch Bates, Chief, Garland, Texas Police Department, announce that defendant Daniel Monroy Osorio was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley to a sentence of sixty months' imprisonment based on his travel in interstate commerce for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor.
On March 16, 2009, Osorio, a thirty-eight-year-old resident of Oakland Park, pled guilty to traveling in interstate commerce for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor. On September 9, 2008, Osorio was arrested in Garland, Texas, after the minor's mother alerted the Garland Police Department that Osorio had traveled from Oakland Park, FL, to Texas to have sex with the victim, who Osorio had met on the Internet. The victim also informed officers that Osorio had previously traveled to Texas to meet him in July, 2008. Osorio was indicted in the Southern District of Florida on October 24, 2008.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
Mr. Acosta commended the efforts of the Florida Attorney General's Office, FBI, and Garland, Texas Police Department. This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Scott Edenfield.
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