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Man sentenced to prison after walking from Indiana to Wisconsin to meet 14-year-old

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A man who walked from Indiana to Wisconsin to have sex with a 14-year-old girl was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison.

Tommy Lee Jenkins had previously moved from Oshkosh to Whitestown, Indiana. In the fall of last year, authorities said Jenkins began texting a person who he thought was a 14-year-old girl in Neenah. Authorities said Jenkins began demanding sexually explicit photographs from the girl and began making plans to have sex with her.

Authorities said Jenkins walked the 351-mile trek from Whitestown, Indiana to Neenah, Wisconsin in order to meet the girl.

The "girl" was actually a Winnebago County Sheriff’s Deputy assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. When Jenkins arrived in Winnebago County, he was arrested.

Jenkins pled guilty in March to a charge of attempted child enticement.

According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Jenkins was convicted of state charges of child abuse in 2011.

At the sentencing hearing, authorities detailed numerous incidents in the eight years following that conviction wherein Jenkins was accused of sexually abusing minors and others.

Following his release from prison, Jenkins will spend the rest of his life on supervised release. He will also have to register as a sexual offender.