'Same category as a murderer.'Īs part of the plea, Zachary also agreed never to appeal. 'How do you like that?' said the dad in a phone conversation with me. The letter, which was obtained by Reason, added that in three years, 'a violent sex offender or murderer' can petition to register less frequently than every three months. Zachary's dad wrote to the authorities asking about this, and got a letter back from the Virginia State Police reiterating that, 'This conviction requires Zachary to register as a sexually violent offender.' Yes, 'violent'-even though he never met the girl in person. Zachary agreed to plead guilty to two counts of 'indecent liberties with a minor.' For this, he will be registered as a violent sex offender for the rest of his life. This is what prosecutors do: scare defendants into a deal. If convicted, Zachary's father told me, he faced a theoretically possible maximum sentence of 350 years. Importantly, he does not possess 'distorted' ideas about sex, according to the psychologist.Įven so, Zachary was arrested and charged with 20 felonies, including indecent liberties with a minor, using a computer to propose sex, and 'child porn reproduce/transmit/sell,' even though he did not send or sell the pictures to anyone. Zachary is incredibly smart, according to the psychologist, though socially awkward and emotionally immature. That's according to information provided by Zachary's parents, as well as an evaluation with Zachary conducted by a psychologist. Her face was not visible, nor were her private parts. By the summer, a month after Zachary turned 18, the girl sent him five pictures of herself in her underwear. Eventually Zachary and the dragon-lover struck up a online friendship, which developed into a online romance. The two 13-year-olds started skyping Zachary together. This younger sister told Zachary he reminded her of a friend: this friend, also a 13-year-old girl, shared Zachary's love of dragons and videogames. She introduced him to her younger sister, age 13.

Here's what happened.Ībout two years ago, when Zachary was a 17-year-old high school senior in Stafford County, Virginia, a girl in his computer club invited him over to visit. He faced a choice between a possible (though unlikely) maximum sentence of 350 years in prison, or lifetime on the sex offender registry as a 'sexually violent offender'-even though he never met the girl in person. Zachary, now 19, is in jail awaiting sentencing for five pictures his teenage girlfriend sent him of herself in her underwear.

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