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Date: 02-17-2019
Case Style:
United States of America v. Ryan Edward Mausner
Case Number: 4:18-cr-00148-DGK-1
Judge: Greg Kays
Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri (Jackson County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: Patrick D. Daly
Defendant's Attorney: Dee Wampler
Description:
Kansas City, MO - Colorado Man Pleads Guilty to Enticing a Minor for Illicit Sex
A Colorado man pleaded guilty in federal court to traveling to Kansas City, Mo., to meet an undercover FBI agent, whom he believed to be a mother with her 7-year-old daughter, for illicit sexual activity.
Ryan Edward Mausner, 42, of Basalt, Colo., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Greg Kays to the online enticement of a minor.
By pleading guilty, Mausner admitted that from Jan. 31 to May 25, 2018, he induced, enticed, and coerced a child victim to engage in criminal sexual activity. Mausner was actually communicating (via the Kik messaging application and texts) with an undercover FBI agent, who portrayed a single mother with a 7-year-old daughter.
Mausner admitted that he engaged the undercover agent in several private chat sessions in which he said he wanted to engage in sexual activity with the mother and daughter. These discussions entailed descriptions of the 7-year-old girl and an insistence, on Mausner’s part, that the mother and 7-year-old would call him “Sir.” Mausner described, in explicit detail, the sorts of sexual activity that he intended to perform on the 7-year-old when they met.
Mausner began communicating plans to either travel to Kansas City, Mo., or arrange for the travel of the mother and her daughter to come to Colorado. Mausner traveled by plane from Denver, Colo., to Kansas City, Mo., on May 25, 2018, with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity with the child victim.
Under federal statutes, Mausner is subject to a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in federal prison without parole, up to a sentence of life in federal prison without parole. The maximum statutory sentence is prescribed by Congress and is provided here for informational purposes, as the sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the court based on the advisory sentencing guidelines and other statutory factors. A sentencing hearing will be scheduled after the completion of a presentence investigation by the United States Probation Office.
It was investigated by the FBI.
Project Safe Childhood
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc . For more information about Internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab "resources."
Between on or about January 31, 2018 and May 25, 2018, in the Western District of Missouri and elsewhere, the defendant, RYAN MAUSNER, using a facility of interstate and foreign commerce, knowingly persuaded, induced, enticed, and coerced an individual who had not attained the age of 18 years to engage in any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense, or attempted to do so, that is, the following felony proscribed by the State of Missouri, such as, but not limited to: statutory sodomy in the first degree (RMo. § 566.062), all in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2422(b).
Charges:
COERCION OR ENTICEMENT OF FEMALE
(1)
COERCION OR ENTICEMENT OF MINOR FEMALE
(2)
Outcome: Minute Entry for proceedings held before District Judge Greg Kays: CHANGE OF PLEA HEARING held on 2/13/2019. Plea entered as to Ryan Edward Mausner (1) Guilty, Count 1. PSI ordered. Dft continued in custody. Time in court: 10:01 a.m. to 10:36 a.m. To order a transcript of this hearing please contact Judy Moore, 816-512-5622. (Strodtman, Tracy) (Entered: 02/13/2019)
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