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ALLEGED CHILD PREDATOR INDICTED ON FEDERAL CHARGE
May 17, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
David E. Nahmias, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia announces that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment against JON FIELDING YOST, 41, of Alpharetta, Georgia, on a charge of attempting to entice a child to engage in illegal sexual activity. According to Nahmias and the documents and information presented in court:The indictment charges that between April 11 and April 22, 2005, YOST, using a computer, attempted to entice a child to engage in illegal sexual activity through sexually explicit private chats on the internet with individuals whom YOST believed to be 13, 14, and 15 years old. YOST then requested a meeting with one of the “minors” and appeared at a meeting location with the intention of engaging in illegal sexual activity with a child. YOST was arrested at the meeting location by federal and local law enforcement officers.
If convicted, YOST faces a minimum sentence of 5 years in federal prison and a maximum sentence of 30 years.
Members of the public are reminded that the indictment contains only allegations. A defendant is presumed innocent of the charges and it will be the government's burden to prove a defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt at trial.
The case is being investigated by federal agents and the Cobb County Police Department.
Assistant United States Attorney Lynn M. Adam is prosecuting the case.
For further information please contact David E. Nahmias, United States Attorney or William McKinnon, 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 www.usdoj.gov/usao/gan.