NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A former prosecutor in Norfolk was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for trying to lure a teen online.
The sentence against Timothy Scott Carnes comes after he pleaded guilty to 26 counts, including trying to take indecent liberties with a child and using a communication system to try to engage in certain offenses with children, the Virginian-Pilot reported. Carnes, 42, was charged last year after messaging repeatedly with a police detective posing as a 14-year-old girl in an online chatroom.
The newspaper reported that Carnes sent sexually explicit videos and tried to convince the girl to send him photos of her.
Carnes was an assistant commonwealth’s attorney in Norfolk from 2004 to 2008. Virginia State Bar disciplinary records show his law license was revoked earlier this year.
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