Cedar Rapids, IA- A 27-year-old man from the small Iowa town of Lowden has been sentenced to a decade in prison after bringing a 14-year-old Minnesota girl to Iowa and hiding her as her parents searched for the teenager. Radio Iowa reports that the federal judge who sentenced 27-year-old Randy Abels described him as a predator. According to a plea agreement, Abels admits he met the teenager online and the two exchanged sexually explicit videos and texts. Abels picked the girl up in Minnesota and the two were found in a park in Cedar County in 2020. The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports Abels also faces felony charges in state court for allegedly taking the same girl from Minnesota to his home in eastern Iowa and sexually assaulting her.
Eastern Iowa man sentenced on child porn charges
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Cedar County man sentenced to 10 years for child porn involving 13-year-old Minnesota girl
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