During the summer, the Bristol man, who thought he was meeting a 13-year-old girl to have sex, was sentenced up to 23 months in Bucks County Correctional Facility minus the time he served in jail while the case was adjudicated.
Bucks County Judge Stephen A. Corr imposed sentence on William Rago Jr., 46 of Bristol, on one count of child pornography connected to his alleged plan to have sex with a minor which was exposed by the online vigilante group, Predator Poachers, and exclusively reported on by Lower Bucks Source, hours after Bristol Borough Police officer “Jimmer” Ellis took the borough man into custody.
Rago Jr’s sentencing was part of a deal worked out with county prosecutors after four of the five felony sex related offenses initially filed were withdrawn at a September 2023 preliminary hearing. Shortly thereafter, Rago Jr. posted bail, according to court records. For reasons not made clear in court records, he was jailed in February for an unknown(s) reason connected to the case.
Corr, in his sentencing of Rago Jr., gave him credit for time served, cumulatively about six months, and he could possibly be released soon since the sentence is approaching the minimum he agreed to serve in jail (nine months). He will be granted presumptive parole provided no misconducts and a verifiable address is provided while he is under sex offender supervision and attend behavioral health treatment per county parole officials.
Predator Poachers were back in the news locally last week as they confronted Keith Page, a Bensalem man who was under the impression he was speaking to a 11-year-old girl that he was allegedly planning to have sexual intercourse with. Page, according to police, acknowledged the age of the fictitious 11-year-old female persona. “Age is only a number,” he said. At one point, police say, during message exchanges with the girl, played by one of the Predator Poacher members, encourages her not to tell her mother about the discussions. Page was arrested on Nov 4 by Bensalem Police.
