A Greene County man admitted in federal court this week that he drove a young teen girl to West Virginia for sex and now faces at least a decade in federal prison.
James Jordan, 31, had been charged in state court with kidnapping a 14-year-old in 2022 after she had been reported missing to Waynesburg police.
The U.S. attorney’s office then indicted Jordan in December on counts of transporting the minor and receiving illicit images of the girl after an investigation by police, the state attorney general’s office and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Police reported the girl as a runaway on Jan. 11, 2022, after her grandmother said she’d driven off with her Jeep, money and phone. The grandmother told police Jordan was responsible.
Police tracked the missing phone to Lewisburg, West Virginia, where they found the girl with Jordan. Investigators later found digital files on Jordan’s phone from November 2021 of the girl in sexual activity.
Jordan will be sentenced in February. He remains in U.S. custody.
Torsten covers the courts for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, but he's currently on strike. Reach him at jtorsteno@gmail.com.
