Colorado Man Sentenced to More than 19 Years in Prison for Enticing a Minor to Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity

MIAMI – On Dec. 7, Miles Steven McGough, 25, of Colorado, was sentenced to 235 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge K. Michael Moore, after previously pleading guilty to enticing a minor victim to engage in criminal sexual activity.

According to the agreed upon factual proffer in support of McGough’s guilty plea, McGough engaged in conduct with a Southern District of Florida minor to include, he sent sexually explicit communications to the minor victim through the Snapchat messaging service, a search warrant of McGough’s cellular phone revealed images of McGough’s genitals that he shared with the minor victim, and McGough's cell phone revealed videos and images of the minor victim performing oral sex on McGough that were created during McGough’s visit to Florida.

Judge Moore ordered that McGough’s term of incarceration be followed by 15 years of supervised release.  McGough was also ordered to pay a $25,000 fine.

U.S. Attorney Markenzy Lapointe for the Southern District of Florida and Special Agent in Charge Anthony Salisbury of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Miami announced the sentence imposed. 

HSI investigated the case with assistance from Castle Rock Police Department in Colorado.  Assistant U.S. Attorney Ajay J. Alexander prosecuted this case.

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 U.S. 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.

Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida at www.flsd.uscourts.gov or at http://pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov, under case number 23-cr-60061.

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