Jersey City Man Enticed Girl, 14, To 'Run Away' With Him: Feds

JERSEY CITY, NJ — A 34-year-old Jersey City man exchanged sexually explicit messages and videos with a 14-year-old girl in California and suggested they escape to a different country so the FBI couldn't find him, according to prosecutors.

Ryan Niksa was charged this week with one count of enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, said the office of Acting U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna on Thursday.

Prosecutors say that via text messages and an app, Niksa and the girl began to “talk dirty” around November 2024.

The girl sent him a video of herself touching her breasts, and he sent one back masturbating to the video, prosecutors say.

Prosecutors say that Niksa said the pair should live together, but they might have to run away to another country to evade their families and law enforcement.

"And worried that your mom is going to call the fbi and once she does that you know my ass will def be sent to jail," Niksa wrote around Jan. 13, according to the complaint in the case. "My family would also disown me. You know their find us, unless we get lucky and make it to a different country. . . we need more money, a solid plan, and go to place where I can’t get arrested. You know our parents will stop at nothing to make sure they either know where we are or come find us. And again I’ll be in jail in a matter of a couple of weeks I’d say."

Niksa also said he might break up with the girl if they couldn't have sex, according to the complaint.

“im not going to go there just so i can chill with you for a day then go back home," he said in January, according to prosecutors. "if you don’t want to live with me when i get there then we should just consider breaking up ... i’m lonely all the time, we can’t go out places together, there no sex, all i get is dreams about us having sex come on you think that is enough to satisfy me."

The minimum penalty for enticement is 10 years in jail, with a maximum of life, as well as a $250,000 fine, prosecutors said.