An Oregon man accused of sexually abusing and abducting a Canadian child – hiding her in his trunk and crossing into the U.S. – was sentenced to prison, federal prosecutors said.
Noah Madrano, 43, from Gladstone, was ordered to serve 50 years behind bars, plus a lifetime of supervised release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon said in an April 8 news release.
He also must pay a $5,000 fine and a to-be-determined amount of restitution, prosecutors said.
McClatchy News reached out to his attorney April 10 and was awaiting a comment.
Madrano met the child through social media, exploiting her sexually for over a year, prosecutors said.
He went to Canada in May 2022 “to meet the child in person” and he “took the child to a hotel room, sexually abused the victim, and recorded his abuse,” according to prosecutors.
Toward the end of June, he went back to Canada, this time abducting her “from outside a school,” prosecutors said.
He sexually abused her at a hotel for days and made recordings, according to prosecutors.
On July 1, he hid her in his trunk and brought her to the U.S., continuing to sexually abuse her at an Oregon hotel, prosecutors said.
He was arrested the next day, prosecutors said, and the child was returned to her parents and taken home to Canada.
Madrano pleaded guilty in January to transporting a child with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and sexually exploiting a child, prosecutors said.
In the news release, Douglas A. Olson, FBI Portland’s special agent in charge, said “the persistence with which Madrano pursued his heinous crimes – traveling internationally on multiple occasions to victimize a child he met online, and ultimately smuggling that victim across an international border, speaks to how predatory his actions genuinely were.”
Olson added that “Madrano will be in his mid-nineties when he is eligible for supervised release. His removal from our communities benefits everyone.”
Gladstone is about a 10-mile drive south from Portland.
