On a family vacation to the Oregon Coast last year, a Lake Oswego woman was surprised to find her 15-year-old daughter sitting in a restaurant with a man old enough to be the teen's father.

Also during the trip, the girl's grandfather found her re-entering the family's vacation home at 3 a.m., saying she couldn't sleep and had gone outside. The grandfather noticed a suspicious van parked near the house and, as he approached it, the driver sped away with the lights off.

The man sitting in the restaurant and driving the van was Erik Christofer Sorenson, a 37-year-old married father of three who had been grooming the teenager online for months. In October police found Sorenson in his car, a half-mile from Lake Oswego High School, having sex with the girl.

Sorenson pleaded guilty Tuesday in Clackamas County Circuit Court to charges of third-degree rape, third degree sodomy and online sexual corruption of a child in the first degree. Under a plea agreement, Judge Kathie F. Steele sentenced Sorenson to three years in prison and to register as a sex offender.

"You are a dangerous man" -- a calculating conniving predator who manipulated a child "to meet your needs," the grandfather told him.

During the trip to the coast, Sorenson at times was creepily close. He sat at a restaurant table next to the family and traded text messages with the girl as they ate.

"You're a monster," the grandfather said. "You disgust me."

"There's nothing I can say that hasn't already been said," said Sorenson after listening to prosecutor Mike Regan and the girl's family. "I feel ... remorse and grief for the damage I caused."

Sorenson, a former juvenile corrections officer, and the girl met online. Using a website that allows two-way video chats, their conversations and behavior went from friendly bantering to sexually explicit displays. Then they met in person -- Sorenson, who lives in Dallas, Ore., would drive to Lake Oswego -- and began having sex.

The girl, a former honor roll student, became a barely average student. She fought with her family and said she wanted to be an emancipated minor. She dreamed of spending time with Sorenson.

"She believed we were the enemy," the girl's mother said in a written statement.

The teen's rejection of her family left them heartbroken.

Then came Sorenson's arrest. Suddenly the abrupt changes in the teenager's personality became understandable.

The girl did not attend the sentencing and did not submit a statement. She remains angry with her family and is in therapy. Her family is praying that she will heal, the grandfather said.

We got our girl back, he said. She is damaged, but we're hopeful her life can be put back together.

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