Opinion ID: 3157648
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Heading: Weekend Encounters

Text: In November 2002, Hawes made arrangements to travel from his home in South Carolina to Georgia to visit K.P. for a weekend. At trial, Hawes testified both that he did not realize K.P. was a minor when he picked her up and that he did not have sexual intercourse with her. He admitted that they checked into a hotel together, but said that after checking in he fell asleep and K.P. left with her friends. 2 Case: 13-13359 Date Filed: 11/24/2015 Page: 3 of 16 According to K.P., however, Hawes gave her alcohol, they had sexual intercourse, and the two spent the weekend together. When Hawes returned K.P. to her home on Sunday, her parents took her to law enforcement to report the incident. This November 2002 weekend formed the basis of Hawes’s statutory rape conviction (count two). K.P. claims that she stayed with Hawes in South Carolina during a second weekend in December 2002. She said Hawes picked her up and drove her to South Carolina, where they had sexual intercourse again. At some point, K.P. said she confessed that she was actually 14 years old, after which she said Hawes took her to a bus station and gave her money to pay for return fare to Georgia. This second weekend formed the basis of Hawes’s convictions for contributing to the delinquency of a minor and enticing a child for indecent purposes (counts one and three).