FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact AUSA VICKIE E. LEDUC or
www.justice.gov/usao/md MARCIA MURPHY at (410)
209-4885
PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED ST. MARY’S COUNTY SEX OFFENDER
PLEADS GUILTY TO ATTEMPTING TO INDUCE A MINOR TO HAVE
SEX
Agrees to be Sentenced to 15 Years in
Prison
Greenbelt, Maryland – Nicholas Edward Seskar,
Sr., age 41, of Lusby, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to attempting to induce a minor to engage in
sex.
The guilty plea was
announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J.
Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Andre Watson of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); St. Mary’s County
Sheriff Tim Cameron; and St. Mary’s County State’s Attorney Richard
Fritz.
In 2006, Seskar admitted
to having sex with a 15 year old when he was 30 years old. He pleaded guilty in
the Circuit Court for St. Mary’s County to one count of sex offense in the third
degree and was sentenced.
According to his plea
agreement, from March 23 to April 2, 2015, Seskar communicated on Facebook with
an individual named “Tiffany” who he believed was 15 years old. “Tiffany” was
in fact an undercover law enforcement officer with the St. Mary’s County
Sheriff’s Office. Over time, his Facebook conversations became extremely
graphic regarding the sexual acts he wanted to perform on “Tiffany.” Seskar
told the undercover police officer that he wanted to meet to have sex, and that
he had slept with a 15 year old when he was 30 years old.
On April 2, 2015, Seskar
arrived at a pre-arranged meeting place and was arrested by officers with the
St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office.
As part of his plea
agreement, Seskar must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides,
where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender
Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
Seskar and the government
have agreed that if the Court accepts the plea agreement, Seskar will be
sentenced to 15 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm has
scheduled sentencing for November 18, 2015 at 2:30 p.m.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe
Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of
Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
Led by the United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child
Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal,
state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who
sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more
information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc. For more information about internet safety education,
please visit www.justice.gov/psc and click on the
"resources" tab on the left of the page.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein commended the
St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office, HSI Baltimore and St. Mary’s County State’s
Attorney’s Office for their work in the investigation. Mr. Rosenstein thanked
Assistant U.S. Attorney Kristi O’Malley and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney
Jennifer Wine of the U.S. Department of Justice,
who prosecuted the case.
Nicholas Seskar
