NEW HAMPSHIRE UNION LEADER – A 47-year-old registered sex offender was arrested Tuesday and faces several felony charges, including solicitation of a child.
Travus S. Barnes had been using a mobile device and the social media app Snapchat to have inappropriate online sexual contact with a person under the age of 16, police said.
The New Hampshire Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force arrested Barnes after investigating the case since July 23.
He was arrested charged with solicitation of a child to engage in sexual activity and failure to comply with sex offender requirements.Barnes is a registered sex offender after being convicted of sexual assault in 2014 … READ MORE.
Travus S. Barnes Criminal History
HEADLINE HEALTH – Travus Barnes’ taste for children is fully documented. He was convicted of multiple charges from his interaction with a 15-year-old he sexually assaulted in 2014:
- 632-A:4, Sexual Assault MISDEMEANOR A Conviction Date: 3/27/2014
- 632-A:4, Sexual Assault MISDEMEANOR A Conviction Date: 3/27/2014
- 641:5, Witness Tampering FELONY B Conviction Date: 3/27/2014
- 641:6, Falsify Phys Evidence FELONY B Conviction Date: 3/27/2014
[SOURCE: Registration of Criminal Offenders]
Yet somehow, the parole board in it wisdom saw fit to parole this predator and release him back into the community where he could reoffend:
Status of Parole, Probation or Supervised Release: Parole Date: 11/27/2021
OUR VIEW: All convicted sex offenders convicted of a felony should be sentenced to the maximum time allowed by law and be ineligible for parole or time off for good behavior. Sentences should be served consecutively. All lawful means to prevent their interaction with minors should be employed for life. What’s your view? Comment at the end of the story.
PRIOR CONVICTION, manufacturing child pornography:
Winchester man sentenced to prison in sex assault case
By ALYSSA DANDREA, Mar 28, 2014
KEENE SENTINEL – A Winchester man will spend five to 14 years in prison for trying to coerce a 15-year-old he sexually assaulted to lie to the authorities about the abuse, while he destroyed evidence in the case.
Travus S. Barnes, 37, was sentenced Thursday to N.H. State Prison time on felony charges of falsifying physical evidence and witness tampering. He pleaded guilty last month to the charges, as well as two misdemeanor counts of sexual assault on a girl he knew in 2012.
As part of a fully negotiated deal, prosecutors dropped five other felony charges against Barnes: four counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault and one count of manufacturing child pornography.
Judge John C. Kissinger Jr., ordered Barnes to serve two consecutive 2½- to seven-year sentences in prison on the two felony charges: falsifying physical evidence and witness tampering. In addition, Kissinger ordered two suspended one-year jail sentences on the two misdemeanor counts of sexual assault …
[NOTE: Two consecutive seven-year sentences plus two additional one-year sentences would have protected the public from Barnes until at least 2030. Yet he was paroled on November 27, 2021 having served about seven years, eight months.]
