A 21-year-old man who drove from Nebraska for a sexual encounter with a 13-year-old Lake Geneva girl is facing up to 25 years in prison when he is sentenced on Dec. 17.
Jacob T. Cambridge of Lincoln, Neb. pleaded guilty Oct. 12 in Walworth County Circuit Court to a felony count of second-degree sexual assault of a child.
An Amber Alert was issued for the girl after she was reported missing from her home on Dec. 18. Lake Geneva police scoured the area, using dogs to search a wooded area near the girl’s home. FBI agents and personnel from the state Justice Department’s Division of Criminal Investigations also were called in.
A search of the girl’s computer identified Cambridge as someone she had corresponded with online and learned his address, cell phone number and the license plate number for his Honda.
Shortly after the Amber Alert was issued, an Elkhorn police detective found Cambridge’s Honda parked outside the Thomas Motel on North Wisconsin Street in Elkhorn.
Cambridge told Lake Geneva police that he took the girl to the motel and that they kissed, touched each other and that she performed oral sex on him, according to the criminal complaint.
The girl told investigators she met Cambridge on the Internet eight months earlier.
