Man Gets 7 Years in Prison for Taking Portsmouth Girl for Sex

A New Jersey man was sentenced on Thursday to serve more than seven years in prison after he took a 13-year-old Portsmouth girl with the intent of engaging in criminal sexual activity with her in July last year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Daniel Berger, 28, of Haskell, NJ, was found guilty in to a charge of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.

Berger took the girl across state lines to Haskell, NJ. The girl’s disappearance triggered an Amber Alert in July.

The FBI found the girl in Berger’s apartment after she was reported missing.

The U.S. District Court ordered Berger to register as a sex offender and pay over $900 in restitution to the victim’s family and to not have contact with any minors without the permission of a probation officer.

Berger was also ordered to serve 15 years of supervised release after his prison sentence.