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A Saudi Arabia man convicted of traveling to the U.S. in the hope of being provided with a 3-year-old girl to molest was sentenced Friday to seven years in federal prison.
Nabil Al Rowais, 37, a psychiatrist from Riyadh, had arranged the trip during nine months of graphic e-mail correspondence with a man he thought was the girl's father, according to court records. The undercover agent was posing as a fellow pedophile who was abusing his own daughter.
Al Rowais flew to San Francisco in April 2006 and took a limousine to a hotel in Vallejo, a city just across the bay. He carried an overnight bag containing a video camera and girls' underwear, U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott said during a news conference after Friday's sentencing.
"He went to room 328 and he knocked on the door, fully expecting to encounter a father and his 2 1/2-year-old - now 3-year-old - daughter," Scott said.
Instead, the man was greeted by an undercover agent who had posed as the girl's father and was immediately arrested. The girl doesn't exist.
His e-mails indicated that Al Rowais had previously molested 2- and 10-year-old girls in Saudi Arabia, Scott said. The man's conduct, Scott said, "absolutely shocks the conscience."
Al Rowais pleaded guilty in January to traveling to the United States intending to have sex with a minor.
His plea agreement called for him to serve nine years in prison, but U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Karlton imposed the seven-year sentence. According to prosecutors, Karlton's rationale was that Al Rowais could be in danger in prison because of the nature of the crime, his Middle Eastern ethnicity and his slight physical stature.
When asked about the lighter sentence, Scott said only that it was the judge's discretion.
Al Rowais is likely to be deported after completing his prison sentence, Scott said.
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