John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of
Connecticut, announced that ANDREW CUNNINGHAM, 39, formerly of Windsor, was
sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 216
months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for
enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity.
According to court documents and statements made in court,
in March 2017, Cunningham began communicating with a 13-year-old female on
Omegle, a website and mobile application designed to pair strangers for text
and video chats. Cunningham first told
the minor victim that he was 17, and later stated he was 25. Cunningham and the minor victim then
communicated via text messaging and phone calls for approximately one
week. During that time, Cunningham
enticed the minor victim to send him sexually explicit images of herself, and
attempted to lure her to travel to Connecticut.
Cunningham has been in state custody since May 2, 2017, when
he was arrested on related state charges.
He pleaded guilty in state court to illegal sexual contact with a minor
and enticement of a minor, and is currently serving a three-year state
sentence. On November 6, 2018, he
pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of count of enticement of a minor
to engage in illegal sexual activity.
Cunningham was a registered sex offender and was on
probation at the time of the offense. In
2014, Cunningham traveled to Illinois and engaged in sexual activity with a
14-year-old girl. He had told the girl
he was 25 years old when, in fact, he was 34 at the time. In 2015, he was convicted in Illinois of
aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a minor and was sentenced to five years in
prison and two years of mandatory supervised release. He was released from prison in December 2016.
This matter was investigated by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and the Connecticut State Police, with the assistance of
Connecticut State Parole. The case was
prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Nancy V. Gifford.
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