A rural Cambridge man was arrested last week by police in Texas after police said he offered a 4-year-old girl for sex through an ad on Craigslist, according to Dane County authorities and a search warrant filed on Tuesday.
Andrew J. Turley, 28, was charged in a Houston court on Monday with one count of child sex trafficking and one count of compelling a child under 18 into prostitution, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office said.
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Turley is being held on $500,000 bond on each charge, the Sheriff’s Office said.
According to the search warrant, filed in Dane County Circuit Court:
Police in Houston said an officer there saw the Craigslist ad in the “casual encounters” section advertising “play” with a little girl.
The officer responded to the ad, and began to converse by email with the person who posted it. Between Nov. 2 and Nov. 12, they exchanged 69 email messages. In them, the sender said he had a “young girl” who was “younger than 10,” and asked the officer if he was “generous.”
Taking that to be a request for money, the officer wrote that he could pay up to $1,000 for two hours with the girl.
Emails that followed detailed the types of sex acts that the officer could perform with the girl. On Nov. 11, the two sent text messages to one another and agreed to meet that day. In one of the texts, the advertiser said he was going to “give her sleep meds to get her to sleep.”
The meeting was rescheduled to Nov. 12. On that day, the officer got a text message from the advertiser, worried that the girl’s mother would come home. That morning, the officer received instructions to go to the parking lot of an apartment building in Houston and to show the money and a work identification card to the advertiser.
The officer parked as instructed and was approached by a man, later identified as Turley, to whom the officer showed an identification card and $1,000 in cash. He and Turley walked to an apartment, then into a bedroom, where the officer saw a child he believed to be 4 years old lying on a bed, groggy and going in and out of sleep.
Turley pulled back a blanket and exposed the child and told the officer to touch her. Turley was then arrested.
Back in Wisconsin, Turley’s home on Highway W in Utica, an unincorporated community in the town of Christiana, was searched Friday by Dane County authorities, who seized computers, digital storage media, a camera, a cellphone, a tablet computer and other items.
Sheriff’s investigators noted in the search warrant that they don’t know when Turley left Wisconsin and traveled to Texas, or where he was when he sent the messages to the officer. They noted that they are seeking a search warrant to determine that location.
