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A West Sacramento professor arrested in 2023 after attempting to arrange sex with a child online in an undercover sting was sentenced this week in Fresno federal court to more than 18 years in prison, U.S. Attorney’s officials announced Friday.
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Rodger Githens, 48, of West Sacramento was convicted in May of attempted enticement of a minor and receipt and distribution of child sexual abuse material at the federal bench trial before visiting U.S. District Judge Jill A. Otake. Githens was handed an 18-year, six-month sentence on the charges. He was also sentenced to 10 years’ supervised release once freed from federal prison.
Githens must additionally register as a sex offender and pay a $75,000 fine, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California.
Githens was a professor at the University of the Pacific in Stockton and a consultant for other colleges and universities when he was arrested by authorities in April 2023.
In March 2023, using the profile “Tall laid back,” Githens contacted a Grindr account run by an undercover agent. Githens was directed to a more secure platform, Telegram, where he graphically described his plans for sex with the undercover officer and the officer’s fictional 7-year-old niece.
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Federal attorneys said Githens on several occasions discussed plans to travel to Fresno to meet the agent and child before authorities in April 2023 served a search warrant on his home, arresting Githens and seizing multiple electronic devices.
“Agents discovered numerous Telegram chats on Githens’s phone including several in which he was exchanging and commenting on videos of the sexual abuse of young children,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California said in a statement announcing Githens’ sentencing.
The FBI conducted the investigation with help from the West Sacramento Police Department.
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