A Shallowater, Texas man was convicted today of enticement
and attempted enticement of a minor following an investigation by the FBI’s
Lubbock Resident Agency, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of
Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
John David Martinez, 32, was indicted in August. Following a day and a half of trial, a
federal jury deliberated for just 15 minutes before finding him guilty.
According to evidence presented at trial, Mr. Martinez
initiated a text chain with his 11-year-old niece in July 2018.
Over the course of 7,702 text messages, he bullied the young
girl into agreeing to have sex with her then 31-year-old uncle.
Fortunately, the child’s babysitter spotted the messages on
her phone, and law enforcement was able to intervene before Mr. Martinez could
actually molest the child.
The defendant now faces a potential sentence of up to life
in federal prison. His sentencing date has not yet been set.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Shallowater Police
Department, and Lubbock County Sheriff’s Department conducted the
investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Callie Woolam and Sean Long are
prosecuting the case. U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix presided over
the trial.
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