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High Sentence for Attempted Online Enticement

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High Sentence Attempted Online Enticement
An Air Force base employee was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment on Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, after pleading guilty to attempted online enticement of a minor.  According to U.S. Sentencing Commission data, from 2006-2016 there were 466 individuals sentenced under 2G1.1 in Criminal History Category I who pleaded guilty.   The average sentence was 23 months and the median was 14 months.  A sentence of 10 years is in the 97.4th percentile, meaning it was greater than 97.4% of the 466 individuals sentenced. The DOJ press release about the case can be accessed here.

Mark Allenbaugh serves as President and Chief Research Officer of SentencingStats.com, Inc.. He is a former staff attorney for the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and a co-editor of "Sentencing, Sanctions, and Corrections: Federal and State Law, Policy, and Practice" (2nd ed., Foundation Press, 2002). Mark is widely regarded as a national expert in Federal sentencing guidelines, analysis and strategy.

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