Sex Offender Charged With Plotting To Have His 12-Year-Old Victim Murdered While Behind Bars
18.09.2022 - 00:29
/ perezhilton.com
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A registered sex offender in Rhode Island has been accused of hatching a murder-for-hire plot against his 12-year-old victim while behind bars.
According to a press release from the Department of Justice, a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment to Chandler Cardente on Wednesday for allegedly enticing a young girl to engage in sexual activity – and then plotting to have her murdered to remove her as a witness. He was charged with the enticement of a minor, committing a felony offense involving a minor while being a registered sex offender, and interstate murder-for-hire.
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According to WPRI, Burrillville Police Colonel Stephen Lynch said Cardente posed as a 17-year-old boy and first reached out to the 12-year-old girl in July of 2021. The Department of Justice claimed in the statement that the 28-year-old soon repeatedly contacted the minor on social media beginning on December 3, 2021. Then, he allegedly arranged to pick up the girl on December 10, 2021, after she finished school that day. Lynch said at the time, WPRI reports:
Her parents soon reported her missing when she failed to come home. While with the middle school student, the DOJ alleges Cardente had “sexual contact” with her. She was later found “curled up on the side of the road” the next day after he allegedly kicked her out of his car when he learned law enforcement was looking for him in connection with her disappearance. Cardente was arrested and has remained in state custody ever since.
But while in the Adult Correctional Institutions, Cardente attempted to hire a hitman to kill the 12-year-old and reached out to someone
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