Hudson Man Sentenced to Over 13 Years in Prison for Attempting to Sex Traffic a Minor at a Manchester Hotel

Hudson Man Sentenced to Over 13 Years in Prison for Attempting to Sex Traffic a Minor at a Manchester Hotel

CONCORD - A Hudson man was sentenced to 162 months in prison for attempting to sex traffic a 12-year-old, United States Attorney Erin Creegan announces. After a three-day trial in May of 2025, Stacey Lancaster, age 47, was convicted of one count of attempted sex trafficking of a minor. United States District Court Judge Paul Barbadoro presided over the trial and announced the sentence, which also included a 5-year term of supervised release.

On November 14 and November 15, 2024, in a proactive law enforcement operation, agents posted and monitored an advertisement on a website commonly used to advertise commercial sex. The advertisement contained images of what appeared to be two minor females, and a contact phone number. Law enforcement agents monitored this line and used it to communicate with potential sex buyers, including Lancaster. During a text conversation between an undercover agent and Lancaster, the agent stated that he/she had a 12-year-old girl available to perform sex acts in exchange for money. The agent then provided Lancaster with the address of a hotel in Manchester. Once at the hotel, the defendant met with an undercover agent and confirmed that he was in possession of the agreed upon $100 to pay for the commercial sex act, and that he would use a condom.

Homeland Security Investigations led the investigation. Manchester Police Department, the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office, and the New Hampshire Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force provided valuable assistance. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Anna Krasinski and Matthew Vicinanzo prosecuted the case.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse, launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by the U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the DOJ's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children, as well as identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc.