An Oregon man convicted of sexually abusing two children he met online will be sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man who met two children on Snapchat, sexually abused them while traveling across three states and eventually abandoned them in a park was sentenced Thursday to more than a decade in prison, prosecutors said .

Albert Wayne Johnson was sentenced Wednesday to 12 1/2 years in federal prison and 10 years of supervised release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon said in a statement Thursday.

On August 8, 2022, deputies with the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call reporting that two minors had been abandoned at a park outside Portland in Boring, Oregon, according to court documents.

The children told officers they met Johnson on Snapchat and that he drove them from Washington to Idaho to Oregon. According to court documents, Johnson sexually assaulted both of them at a motel in Othello, Washington, and one of them at a campground near La Grande, Oregon.

After arriving in Boring, Johnson left the children at a campsite in Barton Park and never returned.

Johnson, 42, was arrested at his home in La Grande on August 30, 2022, on an outstanding warrant for a probation violation. Surveillance video from the Othello motel showed him with the two children, documents say.

In November of this year, a federal grand jury in Portland handed down a three-count indictment accusing him of traveling across state lines to commit a sexual act with a minor, a minor with the intent to commit criminal activity engaging in sexual activity, transporting and committing a sexual offense by a minor registered sex offender.

Johnson pleaded guilty this year to transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.

In court filings, Johnson’s attorney, Elizabeth Daily, emphasized that he did not use physical force or coercion against the girls and said a sentence of just over 11 years would be sufficient.

Johnson had already been convicted of luring a minor and attempted sexual abuse in 2018 and was under state supervision in August 2022, according to prosecutors. He also violated his release conditions by changing his address without permission and not completing sex offender and substance abuse treatment, they said.