Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that William McNeill, 23, of Cumberland, Rhode Island, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to travelling in interstate commerce to engage in sexual conduct with a minor.
According to court documents, in the fall of 2014, McNeill met a 14 year-old girl from Cumberland County online. On about Oct. 18, 2014, following several weeks of communicating with the juvenile in a sexually explicit manner, McNeill travelled from North Carolina to Maine to meet and have sexual relations with her.
McNeill faces up to 30 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.
The case resulted from a joint investigation between the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the Bridgton, Maine Police Department.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
