Prostitution-related charges against a Gowanda, N.Y., man were bound to McKean County Court Tuesday at a preliminary hearing before District Judge Richard Luther.
Additionally, the charges against Andrew R. Stephan, 27, have been amended.
A felony charge of statutory sexual assault has been changed to a charge of unlawful contact with a minor-prostitution, a third-degree felony, court records indicate.
Stephan is also charged with corruption of minors, a first-degree misdemeanor; patronizing prostitutes and furnishing liquor to a minor, both third-degree misdemeanors, court records stated.
According to court records, a 14-year-old girl posted a message through the cell phone app Whisper stating “that she needed alcohol and she would do anything to get that alcohol;” Stephan contacted her an hour later.
In the early morning hours of April 24, 2016, they met in the parking lot at George G. Blaisdell Elementary School, where the pair had sexual intercourse in his father’s truck, and Stephan gave the girl a bottle of McCormick Vodka, court records stated.
Stephan is free, having posted 10 percent of $20,000 bail.
