One man visiting New York will be leaving with more than an "I <3 NY" mug: criminal charges. Larry Warren, 57, was arrested when he thought he was meeting an underage girl at a hotel for sex.
Warren, as reported by the NY Daily News, is a Tennessee minister and the director of operations and personnel at a Christian drug treatment program called Youth Town.
Depending on how old the girl was thought to be, Warren could be facing a number of charges.
To be charged with luring a child (Section 120.70), the criminal which has to get a child to a secluded area. This is automatically a class E felony; however, if the criminal is luring the child in order to assault her, rape her, or any other manner of crime that is equal to a class A or B felony, then the charge would go up to a felony in the C or D class.
For the charge of a criminal sexual act in the first degree, a person "engages in oral sexual conduct or anal sexual conduct with another person... who is less than thirteen years old and the actor is eighteen years old or more" (Section 130.50). Among other things, this is a class B felony, and it would qualify the criminal for predatory sexual assault against a child (Section 130.96), which would be a class A-II felony.
These are some heavy charges that could carry a sentence of between 10 and 25 years.
If the person was caught before the act, "attempt" is added to his charges, and it brings the penalties down. With an attempt, the charge is lowered a letter: so a class C felony becomes a class D felony and so on. The only one that stays the same is the class A-II felony.
- New York Criminal Defense Attorney (FindLaw)
- Laws of New York ( New York Penal Code)
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