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Published January 04, 2012, 10:00 PM

Man who used site to solicit girl loses appeal

A federal appeals court has upheld the sentence of a Minnesota man accused of setting up a Facebook account under a false identity and using the site to contact a 13-year-old girl for sex.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld the sentence of a Minnesota man accused of setting up a Facebook account under a false identity and using the site to contact a 13-year-old girl for sex.

Thirty-six-year-old Darrin Anderson of Middle River, Minn., was sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to a charge of travel to engage in illicit sexual conduct.

Authorities say Anderson traveled from Walhalla, N.D., where he was working, to East Grand Forks, Minn., to have sex with the girl in exchange for $300 in August 2009.

Anderson allegedly engaged in hundreds of chats with girls and tried soliciting them for sex.

Anderson argued in an appeal that the sentence was excessive. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis issued its ruling Wednesday.

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