By Megan Holland, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska
Jan. 5–A Colorado music teacher was sentenced this week to more than five years in federal prison for traveling to Alaska to have sex with a child he met on the Internet.
Brock Purviance of Arvada, Colo., was convicted of flying to Alaska in August 2004 to have sex with a 15-year-old girl he met in an online chat room, federal prosecutors said.
According to a press release from the U.S. attorney’s office, U.S. District Judge John Sedwick gave Purviance the maximum sentence of 71 months in prison because of evidence that Purviance had committed other crimes before, even though he had no previous criminal convictions. Purviance admitted that in 2000 he met a 14-year-old Colorado girl on the Internet and met with her for sex, according to the U.S. attorney’s statement.
After Purviance, who is in his 30s, is released from prison, he will have 25 years of supervised release, prosecutors said. His use of the Internet will be limited and his contact with children will also be limited.
Prosecutors say Purviance, a guitar teacher, met an Alaska girl who was 13 at the time in an Internet music chat room and carried on online chats and telephone conversations with her for more than a year. Purviance conversed with the girl in explicit and graphic language, then flew to Alaska while her parents were out of state at a funeral. The two had sex, prosecutors say.
Purviance was charged with the crime this past July and pleaded no contest in October. It was unclear Thursday how authorities found out about the relationship.
Local and federal authorities in Anchorage in recent years have cracked down on people who prey on youngsters over the Internet. Kids are often online unsupervised, where they reveal many details about their lives and become easy targets unbeknownst to their parents. The Anchorage Police Department has even set up a special unit, dedicated full-time to snagging the predators.
Source: Anchorage Daily News
March 12, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Thank you for posting this… the world will be a little bit safer for the next few years… at least from Brock. Survivor of sexual abuse… I think I like that… I am not sure we feel like surviors yet, but with support from people like you, it gets easier.
ozarkcontessa
December 5, 2007 at 9:32 pm
hmmm… now your using my daughters name and making statements that she said she would never make, and she said you don’t even speak like her either.
Sooooo your crediblity is slipping and slipping… Why not just say who you are and quit using my daughter as a scape goat.
This kind of behavior is so Brock.
Ozarkcontessa