A registered sex offender whose rape charge was reduced to battery will serve six months in prison for having sexual relations with a 15-year-old girl.

Stephen Allured Jr., 23, plead guilty to battery with an intent to commit a serious felony after making a plea agreement with the state.

“I believe it was consensual, but you are an adult and should know better,” District Judge John Patrick Luster told Allured during Tuesday’s sentencing. “This is exactly what you need. Maybe it will enforce the seriousness of your actions.

According to court records, Allured met the victim at Moyie Mud Bogs on May 9 and started a cell phone relationship with her.

At 9 p.m. May 15, he picked up the girl while she was walking and asked if she would like to go fishing at Dawson Lake. While at the lake, the two had sexual intercourse in Allured’s vehicle.

At 7:30 a.m. May 27, Allured picked up the minor from her school bus stop and took her to the Kootenai Valley Motel, where he had rented a room and had sex again.

They then went to Sandpoint together for the day. Allured received a phone call from someone who said police were looking for him and the girl. He dropped the victim off at Wal-mart and told her he couldn’t drive her home because he would get in trouble if he was caught with her.

Allured was then pulled over at 5:43 p.m. May 29 on Denver Street in Bonners Ferry and arrested.

Allured was originally charged with two felony counts of rape, and two misdemeanors for enticing a child under 16 and for providing shelter to a runaway.

Idaho law allowed Bonners Ferry Police to charge Allured with rape because the girl was a minor. The law applies even if the sex is consensual.

Allured was previously convicted of four counts of lewd conduct with a minor child under 16 on Sept. 12, 2000, in Boundary County.