EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A senior citizen will spend 102 months in prison after admitting he traveled to a small Arizona town to have sex with a 14-year-old girl.

Prosecutors charged John Stephen Baker, 71, with attempted travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual activity after three months of monitoring his online communication with a person he believed to be an underage girl.

Baker allegedly asked the girl about her previous sexual experiences and what her favorite sexual position was before traveling to meet her on May 10, 2023, in Sahuarita, Arizona, court records show.

The girl turned out to be an undercover Homeland Security Investigations agent posing as a minor. Baker was arrested in 2023, pleaded guilty in 2024 and sentenced on Sept. 10 in U.S. District Court for t

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