A former Arkansas physician Thursday was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty June 30 to enticement of a minor to cross state lines to groom a 4-year-old girl for sex.
According to a statement from U.S. Attorney Kenneth Elser, Donald Wayne Lamoureaux, 69, of Hardy appeared before Judge P.K. Holmes III in Fort Smith in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas for Thursday's sentencing hearing. Lamoureaux was also sentenced to 10 years of probation.
An undercover Fort Smith officer posed as the mother of the girl offering her daughter for exploitation in an Internet chat room. A meeting was scheduled for Feb. 6 in Missouri, with Lamoureaux unaware that it was part of a task force operation to catch child pornographers that began Jan. 4.
Police arrested Lamoureaux at a hotel in West Plains, Mo., on Feb. 6, where he thought he would be meeting with the mother and her daughter, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.
Lamoureaux told an officer that he wanted to teach the 4-year-old how to have sex but did not want to have intercourse with her until she was 9, according to an affidavit.
Lamoureaux practiced family medicine in Horseshoe Bend and Dexter, Mo., according to the statement. He was also employed at a Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in West Plains, Mo., Elser said.
Read Friday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.