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OREGON CITY, Or. -- A Gladstone man who transported a 13-year-old Canadian girl to Oregon City where he sexually abused her was sentenced Friday in Clackamas County Circuit Court to 75 months in prison.
Noah Whitefield Madrano, 43, pled guilty to Rape in the Second Degree, Kidnapping in the Second Degree and Sexual Abuse in the First Degree. Other related sex crimes were dismissed as part of a plea agreement.
Madrano also faced federal charges in the case. In January he pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland to charges of sexually exploiting a child and transporting a child with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. In April, Madrano was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
The Clackamas County sentence runs concurrent to his federal sentence. Madrano was initially indicted in Clackamas County then indicted on a separate set of federal charges.
There was the potential for a longer prison sentence in Clackamas County case but given that the joint prosecution spanned more than three years, and Madrano will spend five decades in federal prison, the victim and her family wanted to resolve the state case and focus on their journey to heal.
Senior Deputy District Attorney Rusty Amos described Madrano as a “manipulative, sadistic, violent, dangerous pedophile.”
Madrano met the girl online in 2021, presenting himself as a 17-year-old boy. He groomed her and sexually exploited her for more than a year. In May 2022, he traveled to Edmonton, Alberta to meet the girl. He took her to a hotel room where he sexually abused her and recorded it.
On June 24, 2022, he drove to Edmonton to meet her again.
He picked her up at her school. The girl believed she would spend a few days with Madrano. Instead, he forced her to hide in the trunk of his car when they crossed the border. If discovered, he told her to use a false name and say she was a runaway who hid in the trunk unknown to him. He also had her dye and cut her hair.
Police located Madrano and the girl in an Oregon City hotel room on July 2, 2022, where he was taken into custody by Oregon City police officers and FBI agents. Police found a journal kept by the girl where she wrote that Madrano made repeated threats to rape her or kill her and have sex with her corpse.
The girl, now 16, did not attend the sentencing. Amos read her victim’s impact statement.
“Awful things happened to me. (Madrano) violated my body and put me on display. He physically abused me if I said ‘no’. I have physical scars on my body that will not go away,” she said.
“It’s hard to put into words how much pain and trauma I feel,” she said.
“I still have very dark days. I will carry this pain with me for my entire life,” she said. “He does not value human life. He took my dignity and violated me in the worst ways imaginable.”
“The damage caused by these horrific events is complex and largely irreparable,” the girl’s mother said in a written statement. “Madrano is the lowest form of a human being – he is a vile predator who lurks in the underbelly of an unregulated internet, waiting for vulnerable children to pull into his sinister reality.”
Clackamas County Circuit Court case 22CR31682
