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SCOTT SENTENCED IN ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL AND ARRANGE SEXUAL ENCOUNTER WITH A 4-YR-OLD GIRL AND A 6-YR-OLD BOY
March 03, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
David E. Nahmias, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and Gregory Jones, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, announce that DAVID WILLIAM SCOTT, age 34, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Charles A. Pannell, Jr., on charges of using a computer to induce a person under 18 to engage in sexual activity, traveling in interstate commerce with the intent to engage in a sexual act with a person under 18, and crossing state lines with the intent to engage in a sexual act with a person under 12. According to Nahmias:
SCOTT was sentenced to 11 years, 3 months in federal prison, and ordered to serve 5 years supervised release.
SCOTT pleaded guilty to the charges on December 6, 2004. According to the indictment, and evidence at the plea hearing and today’s sentencing hearing, from February 11, 2004 through April 17, 2004, while SCOTT was engaged in online ‘chat room’ discussions, he wrote to a person he believed was a 33-year-old male with a 4-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son. SCOTT began making inquiries to the man regarding the possibility of meeting the man and his two young children, specifically for the purposes of sexual activity. SCOTT, using the screen names “likyunggirls" and "ptquills,” communicated with the “father” using email, instant message, and then telephone, telling the "father" that he wanted to engage in specific, explicit sexual acts with both children. In their communications, SCOTT discussed traveling down to Atlanta for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity with the children and, on April 15, 2004, SCOTT e-mailed the "father" and offered to buy gifts for the children to befriend them. On April 17, 2004, SCOTT was to meet with the "father" at the Hardee's Restaurant, on Delk Road in Atlanta. FBI agents arrested him in the parking lot without incident. The “father” was in fact a name used by a FBI agent operating undercover in the “Safe Child Task Force.” No 4-year-old girl or 6-year-old boy existed. A subsequent search of SCOTT's vehicle produced two stuffed animals, 9 whips, various chains and ropes with ankle/wrist restraints, condoms, sex toys, and knives.
United States Attorney David E. Nahmias said, “This case involves a dangerous sexual predator who used the internet to try to find children to abuse. Through good undercover work by FBI agents, he was identified and arrested. Today he received the lengthy sentence in federal prison that he deserves."
This case was investigated by Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Assistant United States Attorney Aaron M. Danzig prosecuted the case.
For further information please contact David E. Nahmias, United States Attorney or William L. McKinnon, Chief, Economic Crime and Cybercrime, through Patrick Crosby, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Attorney's Office, at (404) 581-6016. The Internet address for the HomePage for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia is http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/gan.