Lewin Receives 4 - 8 Years for Luring a 15-Year-Old Girl

Jesse Ray Lewin appeared for sentencing on charges of Luring a Child with Intent to Engage in Sexual Conduct a Category B Felony with carries 2-15 years in prison.

Per plea negotiations entered into with the State, Lewin entered a guilty plea in District Court in January. During his arraignment, Lewin stated that he communicated with a female on Facebook Messenger and did not know she was underage.

Assistant District Attorney Jeff Weed stated that Lewin was in contact with a 15-year-old female that included graphic photographs of his person and attempts to meet with the victim while under the impression that her parents were out of the area and she was home alone. During a routine check of the victim’s cellphone, the mother and step-father found multiple Facebook messages between Lewin and the victim; acting as they were the victim, they began exchanging sexually suggestive messages.

Lewin maintained that he was highly intoxicated at the time of the messages, and he had no idea that the victim was only 15. The victim stated that she and Lewin had known each other since she was approximately eight years old, and she had run into him during a high school party where she told him that she was a freshman in high school. The victim’s step-father claims that Lewin lives behind their home and that his step-daughter was friends with the defendant’s younger sibling.

ADA Weed argued for a sentence of 36-100 months in prison, despite the psychosexual risk assessment that suggested Lewin was not a high risk to re-offend. Additionally, according to Weed, there was proof that Lewin knew the victim and had no reason to believe that she was of age to engage in sexual acts or photo exchanges. The state also cited a comment made by Lewin during his evaluation, in which he said, “It is sick for anyone to engage in behavior such as his own in this case.”

Lewin was sentenced to 24-96 months in prison and remanded to the custody of the Churchill County Jail to await transport to the Nevada Department of Corrections. Upon release, he will be required to register as a sex offender and be subject to lifetime supervision.