Luis Antonio Rebutti Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Entice a 15-Year-Old Girl for Sexual Activity

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that on December 2nd Luis Antonio Rebutti, 43, pleaded guilty to using the Internet to attempt to entice, induce, and persuade an undercover officer posing as a 15-year-old girl to meet Luis Rebutti for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity.

According to the indictment filed in U.S. Southern District Court of New York on February 6th, "... from on or about January 7, 2009 through on or about January 20, 2009, "Luis Antonio Rebutti using a facility and means of interstate commerce, unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly attempted to persuade, induce, entice, and coerce an individual who had not attained the age of 18 years to engage in sexual activity for which a person can be charged with a criminal offense, to wit, Luis Antonio Rebutti, in communications over the Internet, attempted to entice, induce, and persuade an undercover officer posing as a 15 year old girl to meet Rebutti for the purpose of engaging in sexual intercourse."

Luis Rebutti, using instant messaging, contacted an America Online profile maintained by an undercover detective with the Westchester County Police Department. On January 20, 2009, the defendant went to the Eldorado Diner on the border of Elmsford and Tarrytown, New York, to meet the 15-year-old girl for the purposes of engaging in sexual activity with her, and was arrested.

Luis Antonio Rebutti faces of a maximum sentence of life in prison and a mandatory minimum sentence of 120 months in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Seibel on March 12, 2010.

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