Man gets 20 years for sexually soliciting Vancouver girl, 9

A Tigard, Ore., man was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in federal prison for sexually soliciting a 9-year-old Vancouver girl.

Darrick Shane Haaby, 35, also faces 10 years of supervised release at the end of his prison term and must register as a sex offender and undergo sex offender treatment as part of U.S. District Court Judge Robert Jones’ sentence.

According to federal prosecutors in Portland, Haaby became the subject of investigation after the father of the girl found sexually explicit e-mails and instant messaging chats from Haaby on his daughter’s computer. The girl’s father and Haaby were longtime family friends and Haaby had baby-sat the girl, prosecutors said.

An undercover agent from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement started chatting with Haaby online while pretending to be the girl.

Haaby was arrested Oct. 31, 2009, in Vancouver after he drove to the girl’s house to have sex with her, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice in Portland. He had condoms and a digital camera in his car.

Federal prosecutors said they learned Haaby had sexually abused the girl while baby-sitting her at his Tigard apartment. He was convicted separately on that incident in Oregon and sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison. That sentence will run concurrently with his federal sentence, according to the press release.

The Vancouver Police Department assisted federal authorities with the investigation.