MAN CHARGED IN RAPE, SODOMY (Met 1 of 2 girls via Web, police say)

PFMLIT General, INTERNET OFFENDER CASES, NEW YORK

Michael Bevans, a 29 year old Hempstead man, was arraigned on charges that he lured a 13 year old and a 14 year old girl to a hotel room for sex after meeting one of them in an online chat room several days ago.  He picked up the girls at a Long Island Railroad station in Nassau County on Friday evening and took them to the Broadway Motor Inn on Route 100 in East Farmingdale.  After the 14 year old left the hotel room, she called her parents who then notified police.  When police arrived at the motel, they found Bevans with the 13 year old still in the motel room.  He has been charged with one count of rape and two counts of sodomy for allegedly having sex with the underage girls.  He was held overnight at the First Precinct in West Babylon and was arraigned yesterday morning and released on bail.

(New York)