Olajide Benjamin Ayilaran, Child Sex Trafficking, Virginia 2024

A Manassas man was sentenced to 18 years in prison for providing drugs and alcohol to a child in exchange for sex acts and possession of child sexual abuse material.

Olajide Benjamin Ayilaran, 24, was sentenced today in the Eastern District of Virginia for his role in the sex trafficking of a 14-year-old girl and possession of child sexual abuse material.

According to court documents, Ayilaran met the victim during the summer of 2023 and began communicating with her via iMessage. In the messages, Ayilaran offered to provide the victim with drugs, alcohol, and nicotine products in exchange for sex acts.

Between at least November 21, 2023, and February 29, 2024, Ayilaran met the victim nine times, usually in the morning before the victim went to school, to exchange the products for sexual acts. Ayilaran would wait for the victim in his car in a nearby park and then have the victim perform sex acts on him.

Ayilaran recorded the sex acts on his cellphone, which was later seized by authorities. A forensic examination of Ayilaran's phone revealed 73 sexually explicit images and videos of the victim and approximately 1,000 images and videos depicting other minors, including prepubescent children, engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Ayilaran kept the majority of his child sexual abuse material in a folder that he titled with a smiley face emoji.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. The initiative is led by U.S. Attorney's Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS).

The sentence was announced by Erik S. Siebert, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Kai Wah Chan, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Washington, D.C.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/manassas-man-sentenced-18-years-prison-sex-trafficking-child-and-possession-child