Phone sex company alerts police to alleged child sex abuse in Brackenridge, PA
A tip from a phone sex company owner resulted in Allegheny County Police charging a 42-year-old Brackenridge man with sexually abusing a 9-year-old boy. According to a criminal complaint filed in the case, John Patrick Godfrey claimed his talk with the phone sex operator was only fantasy, but Allegheny County Police said they found photos on Godfrey’s cellphone depicting him carrying out the acts he described.
Police charged Godfrey with 18 felony offenses, including 10 counts of possession of child pornography and one count of dissemination of child pornography. He also is charged with unlawful contact with a minor, indecent assault, endangering the welfare of children and corruption of minors.
The complaint said the owner of a phone sex company contacted Brackenridge police on Sept. 3 about disturbing comments Godfrey allegedly made to one of her operators earlier that day. Godfrey allegedly talked about performing sex acts on a 9-year-old boy and masturbating in front of him, and had the boy say hello on the call. Godfrey was identified because he gave his date of birth, home address, credit card number and the boy’s name to the operator, the complaint said.
Godfrey’s bail was set at $50,000 during an arraignment Friday morning. He was sent to Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Sept. 30 ...
In December 2017, a Warren County judge sentenced Godfrey to three months to two years in jail for molesting a girl when she was 8 or 9 years old.
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