Oregon man to be sentenced for abducting Edmonton girl over U.S. border
CBC
An Oregon man is expected to be sentenced Tuesday for abusing an Edmonton teenager and abducting her to a suburb of Portland, Ore., more than 1,500 kilometres away from home.
Noah Madrano pleaded guilty in January to two of the six U.S. federal charges he faced after his arrest in July 2022. Police found him in an Oregon hotel room with a 13-year-old girl who'd been missing from Edmonton for more than a week.
He admitted that he was in contact with the girl online for about a year before he travelled to Canada twice in 2022 and sexually abused her in person, filming some of the abuse.
The second time Madrano was in Edmonton, he took her from outside her junior high school and kept her in a local hotel room for a few days before over the U.S.-Canada border with the girl in the trunk of his car.
Family members of the girl, who CBC News is not naming to protect her identity as a youth victim of a crime, are in Portland, Ore., to read victim impact statements at Tuesday's hearing in the U.S. District Court.
It's anticipated that U.S. District Judge Michael Mosman will then hand down a sentencing decision.
Madrano, who is in his early 40s, admitted to the charges of sexual exploitation of a child and transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
He faces a possible maximum sentence of life in prison. Both charges are felonies, and come with mandatory minimum sentences of 10 to 15 years.
Madrano additionally faces U.S. state charges, but that could change based on the outcome of the federal case.
The Edmonton Police Service said in a statement that Madrano wasn't charged in Canada, because his case was dealt with by U.S. authorities.
The investigation involved multiple police agencies, with EPS working with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, Gladstone Police (Oregon), Oregon City Police and the FBI.
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