73-year-old man is convicted
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 73 year-old man, whose online nickname was
"seniorloverman," was convicted on Wednesday of using a telephone and the
Internet to try to coerce and entice a minor to engage in sexual activity.
This conviction was announced by U. S. Attorney Jos� Angel Moreno, Southern
District of Texas. The investigation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE), the FBI and Corpus Christi Police Department
(CCPD.
George Ivar Musick, 73, of Harker Heights, Texas, was found guilty by a jury
and the verdict was accepted by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Hayden Head
on June 9. Musick faces a mandatory minimum sentence of not less than 10
years incarceration and up to a lifetime of supervised release. He has been
in federal custody without bond since his arrest in March. Sentencing is set
for Aug. 26.
During the two-day trial, witness testimony detailed how Musick began
chatting via the Internet while using the AOL (America Online) screen name
"seniorloverman," in an online chat room dedicated to adults who are
interested in engaging in sexual activities with minors. While in this chat
room, Musick unknowingly encountered an undercover CCPD detective posing as
the 41-year-old mother of two daughters, ages 12 and 13. Musick's online
chats and emails with the undercover detective began Feb. 9 and continued
through Feb. 26. Musick described in explicit detail his desire to engage in
sexual acts with the 13-year-old daughter.
Musick also expressed his willingness to travel to Corpus Christi to engage
in these sexual acts with the child. Jurors also heard that Musick had
engaged in similar chats with the undercover detective's 13-year-old child
persona. During numerous chats with the 13-year-old, Musick described the
sexual acts he intended to perform on the child, and expressed to the girl
the need for their activities to remain a secret from everyone else.
On Feb. 26, Musick traveled from Harker Heights, Texas, near Waco, to Corpus
Christi, Texas, with the intention of engaging in sexual activity with the
13-year-old child. Instead, he was met by CCPD and arrested.