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Judi Lynn

(160,586 posts)
Wed May 6, 2015, 02:46 AM May 2015

Ex-Army contractor admits to relationship with 13-year-old

Source: Houston Chronicle

Ex-Army contractor admits to relationship with 13-year-old
Posted on May 5, 2015 | By Dane Schiller

An American who oversaw computer technology at a military base in Honduras has admitted to having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl there, according to court records.

William McGrath, 54, who contended the girl had at first deceived him about her age, had challenged whether the U.S. government had the authority to prosecute him for something that occurred outside U.S. borders.

With his recent guilty plea at the federal courthouse in Houston, McGrath concedes that he had illicit sex in a foreign place.

McGrath allegedly met the girl in 2013 at a Honduran supermarket as she was buying her own cake for her 13th birthday, according to the FBI.

Read more: http://blog.chron.com/narcoconfidential/2015/05/ex-army-contractor-admits-to-relationship-with-13-year-old/

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Ex-Army contractor admits to relationship with 13-year-old (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2015 OP
“But the girl said she originally told McGrath she was 16” Little Tich May 2015 #1
So it might get him out of trouble in Honduras JustABozoOnThisBus May 2015 #3
“But the girl said she originally told McGrath she was 16” left-of-center2012 May 2015 #4
Disgusting A Little Weird May 2015 #2
Ummm Joanie Baloney May 2015 #5
Gross. nt cyberswede May 2015 #6

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,356 posts)
3. So it might get him out of trouble in Honduras
Wed May 6, 2015, 07:36 AM
May 2015

after a little searching, it looks like 15 is the accepted age of consent:

En Honduras la ley no define en forma explícita una edad de consentimiento, aunque hay autores que haciendo una analogía con otras legislaciones consideran que la edad de consentimiento en Honduras es de 15 años.

http://nacerenhonduras.com/2011/02/la-edad-de-consentimiento-en-honduras.html

The easy way to find out: extradite him to Honduras, let them sort this out.



left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
4. “But the girl said she originally told McGrath she was 16”
Wed May 6, 2015, 10:15 AM
May 2015

So he says it was really her fault? Uh .... no.

Joanie Baloney

(1,357 posts)
5. Ummm
Wed May 6, 2015, 10:57 AM
May 2015

He just said he met her when she was buying a cake for her 13th birthday. I think he knew how old she was then.

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