SACRAMENTO (AP) - A tourist from Saudi Arabia was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison after he traveled to California thinking he was about to molest a 3-year-old girl. Nabil Al Rowais arranged the trip during nine months of e-mail correspondence with a man he thought was the girl's father.
He flew to San Francisco in April and traveled to a Vallejo hotel. There he was arrested by an undercover agent posing as the girl's father. The girl herself doesn't exist.
He pleaded guilty in January to traveling to the United States intending to have sex with a minor.
Prosecutors say he is likely to be deported after completing his prison term.