Tuesday, October 05, 1999
British predator gets maximum
Man who met local girl on Net to be deported after jail
BY BEN L. KAUFMAN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Ian Waddup, a sexually predatory Briton who flew here to meet a 14-year-old girl he encountered on the Internet, was sentenced to the maximum six months in prison Monday for lying to U.S. immigration authorities.
U.S. District Judge Sandra S. Beckwith also put him on a year of supervised release and barred contact with anyone 16 or younger because of his “unhealthy and unnatural” preoccupation with children.
Then she gave Mr. Waddup, 37, credit for the five months he has been in federal custody, awaiting sentencing.
If the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) can deport him to Great Britain before Nov. 4, Judge Beckwith said, she would consider letting him go early.
Federal Public Defender W. Kelly Johnson had urged her to sentence Mr. Waddup to five months and two weeks and make a return to court unnecessary. Prosecutor John DiPuccio agreed, but the judge said she wanted to give Mr. Waddup the maximum for his misdemeanor.
If, for any reason, it takes longer to arrange Mr. Waddup's return to England, he will remain in INS custody.
Mr. Waddup will pay for his own deportation. He came with a round-trip ticket, saying he hoped to take the Hamilton girl home with him.
As a Briton, Mr. Waddup was not required to have a visa to enter this country as a visitor, but he had to complete a routine visa waiver form when he arrived at Chicago's O'Hare Airport in February.
The immigration form asked whether he had been “arrested or convicted for an offense or crime involving moral turpitude.”
He checked the “no” box.
That false statement was the misdemeanor for which he was sentenced.
A truthful answer could have barred him from this country.
Judge Beckwith said Mr. Waddup has convictions for sex crimes involving girls 5, 6 and 14 and a boy, 6. His earliest conviction was in 1977.
Mr. Waddup has been in the Hamilton County Justice Center since he finished his state sentence for contributing to the Hamilton girl's delinquency.
Hamilton County Juvenile Judge Sylvia Hendon suspended half of his 180-day sentence and gave him credit for time served then. She also barred him from any contact with the girl.
Mr. Waddup said he met the youngster in an Internet chat room and they exchanged e-mail for months.
Then he flew through Chicago to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, where the youngster met him.
Mr. Waddup acknowledged knowing the girl was 14. He said he hoped she would return with him and they could marry when she turned 16, the legal age in England.
There apparently was no sexual relationship while they were together; otherwise, Mr. Waddup could have been prosecuted for a felony under the Mann Act.
Springdale police arrested Mr. Waddup soon after his arrival; an anonymous caller reported seeing him and the girl kiss outside a store.
Shortly after his arrest, Mr. Waddup told The Cincinnati Enquirer he was drawn to the girl because “she was a very happy person. ... I didn't go there looking for a 14-year-old — it was her personality that I liked.”
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