Canyon County, ID – A man who kidnapped an 11-year-old girl after meeting and grooming her through an online video game with the intent of keeping her in a special room at his parent’s home in California was released onto probation by a judge after serving just nine months behind bars.
Brian Sangjoon Lee, 21, spent months grooming the pre-teen Nampa girl online and over the phone before he traveled from California to Idaho to abduct her in August of 2021, Canyon County Sheriff Kieran Donahue said in a press release on Jan. 25.
Lee planned to bring the girl back to California with him, “where he had a special room prepared for her to live in at his parent’s house,” Sheriff Donahue wrote.
“It’s hard to believe he had her best intentions in mind, especially since he encouraged her to delete her cell phone records and leave her phone behind to […]
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