A man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge alleging that he traveled across state lines while intending to have sex with an underage girl who had been smuggled into the United States from Mexico.
Antonio Calderon-Garcia, 37, admitted in his plea agreement that in 2011 he “facilitated” the girl’s entry into the United States and that he then traveled to Dallas to pick her up and bring her to Tulsa.
He stated in the document that the girl was 15 at the time.
U.S. District Judge James Payne is scheduled to sentence him on Oct. 23. The prosecution and defense stipulated in his plea agreement that he should serve 10 years in prison and then be deported.
The girl was about 14 and living in Mexico when she first met Calderon-Garcia, who would travel between the two countries, according to an affidavit filed June 6.
Calderon-Garcia said in his plea agreement that he traveled to Texas in 2011 to pick her up “to continue my romantic relationship” with her.
After the girl was brought to Tulsa, she lived in the city with Calderon-Garcia, his common-law wife and two children, the affidavit states.
He told his wife that the girl was his 15-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, the affidavit alleges.
He continued a sexual relationship with the girl “behind his wife’s back,” and the wife later kicked them both out of the house after learning of the sexual relationship, the affidavit states.
The two then lived together in an apartment until the girl notified a social services counselor of the situation, the affidavit states.
Federal authorities were notified May 2, and Calderon-Garcia was arrested May 9 on a municipal traffic warrant. He pleaded guilty Monday to a charge filed June 28 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tulsa.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Trent Shores said the girl, now 17, is in the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services and living with a foster family.
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