Philip Taylor Sobash, Child Sexual Exploitation, Tennessee 2019

State: Tennessee
Category: Sex Crimes
Source: <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/pr/texas-man-indicted-child-sexual-exploitation-charges" style="color:#cc0000;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">DOJ Press Release ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Â Ã¢â‚¬â€

NASHVILLE – A Texas man has been charged with child sexual exploitation offenses in Tennessee.

According to court documents, between October 2018 and May 2019, Philip Taylor Sobash, 34, of Austin, engaged in an online sexually explicit relationship with Minor Victim 1, who resided in the Middle District of Tennessee.

The online relationship allegedly began after they connected on a dating website that facilitates ‘sugar daddy’ relationships. Although Minor Victim 1 represented that she was 18 when she signed up for the website, the site did not verify the age of its users.

As alleged, after their communications moved to text message, Minor Victim 1 quickly informed Sobash of her true age and sent him a photo of her driver’s license, which confirmed that she was a minor.

Sobash allegedly requested that Minor Victim 1 produce and send him sexually explicit images of herself and provided her thousands of dollars in cash and gifts to entice her to do so.

Over the course of more than seven months, Minor Victim 1 allegedly sent hundreds of sexually explicit photos and videos to Sobash, most of which constituted child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Sobash was arrested earlier today in the Western District of Texas. He is charged with one count of sexual exploitation of a minor, one count of coercing a minor to engage in prostitution or unlawful sexual activity, and one count of receipt of child pornography.

If convicted, he faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison on the sexual exploitation of a minor count, a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison and a maximum penalty of life in prison on the coercing a minor to engage in prostitution or unlawful sexual activity count, and a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for the receipt of child pornography count.

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