LEESBURG, Va. — Nearly three years after James Roland Goetz, 32, was arrested in an online police bust, he appeared before Judge Thomas D. Horne in Loudoun County Circuit Court for sentencing.
He was accused of five counts of electronic solicitation of a minor under fifteen.
On March 19, 2019, the Judge sentenced Goetz to fifteen years and two months in the Virginia Department of Corrections.
Back on October 8, 2016, a Leesburg Police Department Detective pretended to be a 14-year-old girl and responded to an ad posted on Craigslist in the personals section.
Goetz responded to the detective and had ongoing conversations with the “14-year-old” that was sexual in nature.
Goetz emailed nude photographs of himself, requested nude photographs from the “fourteen-year-old” and suggested that they meet for sex.
On October 17, 2016, Goetz went to meet up with who he thought was a teenager for sex. When Goetz got there he was arrested.
Goetz was found guilty of the offenses on June 6, 2018 after a single-day bench trial. Judge Horne imposed an additional forty-four years and ten months of suspended time.
When Goetz gets out of prison he will be placed on ten years of supervised probation, and will be required to complete a sex offender treatment program as directed by his probation officer. He will also be required to register as a sex offender.
