A 29-year-old D.C. man accused of having sex with a young boy in Florida has been extradited to Washington, D.C., to face charges here.
FBI agents arrested Tanner Stickney last month as he exited a plane at the Orlando International Airport after he bragged online about plans to visit his ex-girlfriend to have sex with one of the children she baby-sits.
According to the criminal complaint filed against Stickney, federal agents searched his apartment at 53 Seaton Place NW and found several videos of boys engaged in sexual acts.
They also found a video camera on a bedroom bookshelf with a four-minute video showing a child, about 8 to 10 years old, engaged in sexual acts with an adult male.
The man appears to be Stickney, according to the complaint.
In an online chat with an undercover D.C. police officer, Stickney boasted that he was going to Florida to have sex with a boy and that he had already had sex with a boy there.
FBI agents watched Stickney as he boarded a flight at the Baltimore/Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport and changed planes in Charlotte, N.C.
When he landed in Orlando, FBI agents arrested him and confiscated his cell phone and laptop computer. They found more than 100 movie files depicting children in sexual activities, police said.
FBI agents said Stickney was on his way to meet Rhonda Bays, 39, of Eustis, Fla. Agents said Bays baby-sat young boys in her home and she was planning to have Stickney have sex with one of them.
Bays told agents that Stickney fantasized about engaging in sexual acts with “little boys,” and “that she engages in these sexual molestation chats with Stickney as part of his fantasy,” according to a criminal complaint against Bays.
She told investigators that he has visited her in Florida.
Bays was charged with conspiring with another to travel across state lines for the purpose of engaging in illegal sexual conduct.
Stickney was brought back to D.C. last week and pleaded not guilty to molestation and child pornography charges. He was ordered held without bond.
