Bryan Rogers, the Wisconsin man who encouraged a 14-year-old Tennessee girl to make a video of alleged abuse by her adoptive father and then brought her to Wisconsin, will plead guilty to a charge of bringing her across state lines to have sex with her, documents show.
The agreement is detailed in a document filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Madison, Wisconsin.
He faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison.
The count is among several included in a superseding indictment against Rogers. With the agreement, Rogers would not face prosecution for other counts including one that charges him with exploiting her by having the girl make the sexual assault video.
Rogers is being held in jail in Madison.
The agreement was not unexpected. Lawyers signaled Friday in Madison they were talking about a plea agreement, court records show.
According to the agreement, Rogers would face at least five years of supervised release after serving his federal prison term. He also would have to pay restitution.
Rogers and the girl struck up a long-distance, online relationship late last year. She told him that her adoptive father, Randall Pruitt, was having sex with her and had been coercing her into having sex for years.
She asked for help.
Rogers told her she needed to secretly film Pruitt engaging in the assault with her cellphone for evidence purposes. She objected repeatedly about the idea over the course of weeks but ultimately recorded an incident, authorities allege.
Afterward, Rogers secretly drove from Wisconsin in January, retrieved her without her parents' knowledge and hid her in his mother's home in Madison.
They also prepared a package that included the video and delivered it to the FBI in St. Louis.
According to records, Rogers also began having sex with the underage girl.
Pruitt has been charged in Monroe County with three counts of rape of a child and tampering with evidence. The girl's mother, Christine L. Pruitt, also is charged with tampering with evidence.