Washington man who made Minnesota girl online sex slave sentenced to nearly 30 years

STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) — A 20-year-old Washington state man was sentenced Thursday to nearly 30 years in prison for turning a 13-year-old Minnesota girl into his online sex slave.


Under a plea deal, 20-year-old Cheyenne Cody Vedaa Foster, of Arlington, Washington, was sentenced Thursday to 28 years and eight months. He pleaded guilty in April to first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving sexual penetration, personal injury and force or coercion, even though he never met his victim in person.

Foster admitted conveying threats of punishment through text messages, video chats and social media to coerce his victim, a girl from the St. Paul suburb of Lake Elmo, to sexually abuse herself.

According to the complaint, Foster ordered the girl to wear a collar to prove her commitment to him.

The Star Tribune reports the man called himself “Hero” and the Stillwater girl was “Kitten.” The complaint says Foster told the girl to abuse herself sexually and commit sex acts while suffocating herself. At one point, Foster told her she’d “almost commit suicide” when they spoke over FaceTime.

 

Foster kept the girl on some sort of alleged sexual contract, the Star Tribune reports. One officer told the Star Tribune they “believed that this may be a copycat from the character in the novel and movie '50 Shades of Grey,’ where the dominant male character uses a contract and rules to control a submissive female.”

“I’m telling parents to rethink your notions about privacy and boundaries,” Minnesota’s Washington County Attorney Pete Orput said Wednesday.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports (http://bit.ly/1rfutLK ) Foster told the judge at his sentencing hearing Thursday that it burns him inside to think of what he's done and who he's hurt.