CINCINNATI: An Ohio man who authorities say held a 14-year-old girl captive for months and raped her while being electronically monitored because of an earlier abduction case pleaded guilty Friday to luring a minor to his home for sex.
Cody Lee Jackson, 21, pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati to coercion and enticement of a minor.
Other federal charges will be dismissed at sentencing if the judge accepts the plea agreement. They include production of child pornography, transfer of obscene matter to a minor and tampering with a witness, victim or informant. Jackson earlier pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Messages seeking comment on his behalf were left Friday at the office of his attorney, Candace Crouse.
Court documents say Jackson contacted the teenager through Facebook in February 2015 while being monitored at his apartment in the Cincinnati suburb of Norwood after pleading not guilty in an unrelated 2014 abduction case.
While still being monitored, Jackson arranged for a taxi to deliver the 14-year-old on several occasions and had sex with her, according to federal documents.
By March 2015 he no longer allowed her to leave his apartment “unless it was with him or at his direction,” the documents say.
He punished her physically for violations of rules he set for her that included no talking to other men and no showering or using the restroom without permission, the documents say.
She became pregnant after being at Jackson’s apartment for nearly two months, authorities said in an affidavit.