Wednesday, April 07, 1999
Net predator gets jail time, probation
Englishman came to U.S. to meet Hamilton girl
BY EARNEST WINSTON
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Ian Waddup
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Prior to being sentenced to jail Tuesday, Ian Waddup talked often with his attorney in Hamilton County Juvenile Court.
But when Judge Sylvia Hendon asked the Briton if he wanted to respond before his sentencing on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a 15-year-old Hamilton girl he met via the Internet, the 37-year-old quietly responded, “No, your honor.”
Judge Hendon, who suspended 90 days of Mr. Waddup's 180-day sentence and credited him for time served since his Feb. 9 imprisonment, also placed Mr. Waddup on two years' probation. . The judge said it was “insidious” the way he crept into the home of the girl — then 14 — via the Internet.
“Mr. Waddup, I wish there was a way I could order you off the Internet,” said Judge Hendon. “I don't know how I would ever enforce that.”
Conditions of Mr. Waddup's probation are: that he stays off the Internet, have no contact with the 15-year-old and leave the United States when the federal case is over, Judge Hendon said.
She still has the option of extending Mr. Waddup's probation up to five years. “The probation is basically to confirm that he gets out of the country,” said assistant prosecutor Julie Stautberg.
Family members of the girl did not attend Tuesday's sentencing.
E. Farran Forg, Mr. Waddup's Cincinnati attorney, said her client did not want to comment, and that he just wants to return to England.
“That's what we would all like — for him to go back (home),” Ms. Forg said.
But before Mr. Waddup returns to England, where he could also be prosecuted, he faces a federal charge, said John DiPuccio, an assistant U.S. Attorney in Cincinnati.
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has charged Mr. Waddup with making false statements to immigration officials. Authorities allege Mr. Waddup told them he had never been convicted of an offense or crime involving “moral turpitude” despite his 1994 conviction for indecent assault on two girls in the United Kingdom. If he had admitted to the prior convictions, he would have been prohibited from entering the United States.
Springdale Police arrested Mr. Waddup Feb. 9 after an anonymous caller alerted them that a much older man was kissing a young girl outside a store near the Tri-County Mall. “This is a very unusual case in that it was stopped short so quickly,” Judge Hen don said.
Mr. Waddup told police he and the girl were waiting for a cab to take them to Hamilton, and that he intended to marry her in England in May after she turns 16, the legal age for marriage in that country.
Mr. Waddup also told police he and the girl had been “chatting” on the Internet for the past 18 months. In an interview with The Cincinnati Enquirer in February, Mr. Waddup said he was drawn to the girl because “she was a very happy person.”
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