CULLMAN, Ala. – Cullman County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) deputies and investigators arrested David Anthony Watson Jr., 23, of West Point Friday, charging him with electronic solicitation of a child and sexual extortion.
According to the CCSO, the arrest came after a brief investigation and consultation with the Cullman County District Attorney’s Office.
“I would like to thank all the deputies, investigators and also the Child Advocacy Center (Brooks’ Place) for all they did to put this predator behind bars,” said Sheriff Matt Gentry.
Due to this case involving a minor child, the CCSO cannot release further details.
Watson is currently being held in the Cullman County Detention Center on a $60,000 property bond.
What do these charges mean?
According to the Alabama Code:
A person commits the crime of sexual extortion if he or she knowingly causes another person to engage in sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse, sexual contact, or in a sexual act or to produce any photograph, digital image, video, film, or other recording of any person, whether recognizable or not, engaged in any act of sadomasochistic abuse, sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse, sexual excitement, masturbation, breast nudity, genital nudity, or other sexual conduct by transmitting any communication containing any threat to injure the body, property, or reputation of any person.
It is a Class B felony.
Electronic solicitation of a child:
In addition to the provisions of Section 13A-6-69, a person who, knowingly, with the intent to commit an unlawful sex act, entices, induces, persuades, seduces, prevails, advises, coerces, lures, or orders, or attempts to entice, induce, persuade, seduce, prevail, advise, coerce, lure, or order, by means of a computer, on-line service, Internet service, Internet bulletin board service, weblog, cellular phone, video game system, personal data assistant, telephone, facsimile machine, camera, universal serial bus drive, writable compact disc, magnetic storage device, floppy disk, or any other electronic communication or storage device, a child who is at least three years younger than the defendant, or another person believed by the defendant to be a child at least three years younger than the defendant to meet with the defendant or any other person for the purpose of engaging in sexual intercourse, sodomy, or to engage in a sexual performance, obscene sexual performance, or sexual conduct for his or her benefit or for the benefit of another, is guilty of electronic solicitation of a child. Any person who violates this section commits a Class B felony.
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