A Lincoln man accused of trying to pay for sex with a 12-year-old girl with trading cards and a DVD player was sent to prison Wednesday.Ìý
Joshua Vrana, 26, pleaded no contest in May to two counts of first-degree attempted sexual assault of a child, first-degree sexual assault, two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a child and debauching a minor.
A Nebraska State Patrol investigator got a tip in April 2015 about an exchange on an online dating site in which a user claimed to have a 25-year-old friend who wanted to have sex with a 16-year-old user's 12-year-old sister.
Investigators identified the user with the friend as Vrana and messaged him on Facebook pretending to be the 16-year-old, according to an affidavit to jail Vrana.
Vrana said he would pay for sex with the now 13-year-old using Yu-Gi-Oh! trading cards and a DVD player, investigators said in documents.
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Lancaster County District Judge Karen Flowers told Vrana during his Wednesday morning sentencing that he's every parent's worst nightmare.Ìý
"You are a sexual predator and you prey on children and that's wrong," she said.
She sentenced him to 15 to 30 years in prison and gave him credit for the year he's been in jail.