Two years after his sentence, police would receive another complaint about Sawyer, this one filed by a teenage girl who said her ex-boyfriend "had recorded them having sex without her knowing." In exchange for his plea, the more serious charge of child abusive commerce activity was dismissed. He was sentenced to one day in jail and 39 months of probation, and he was ordered to register as a sex offender. 14, 2021, after cutting a deal with the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office, Sawyer pleaded guilty to one count of capturing and distributing an image of an unclothed person. "He stated that he believed (she) was 16 at the time the video was created," an FBI agent says in his affidavit, adding "Sawyer then admitted to posting the video on Pornhub."Ī warrant was issued for his arrest. On May 1, 2020, Southfield police detectives interviewed Sawyer at his home, where he "admitted to recording the video" of the girl.
– a then-18-year-old from Madison Heights. The girl also gave police the Instagram profile for "Tyrone," who turned out to be Tyrone Zackary Sawyer Jr. "I reviewed the video, and the video meets the federal definition of child pornography," an FBI agent wrote in his affidavit. The website provided the video to police, who confirmed the minor girl's identity and then gave the video to the FBI.
On March 19, 2020, 10 days after the girl filed her report, Southfield, Michigan, police served a search warrant to Pornhub for information about the video with the 14-year-old girl. Tyrone asked the girl not to tell anyone "as he could get in trouble." She also described Tyrone, including that he had a tattoo on his chest. In her police report, the girl said that while video chatting with "Tyrone" and before the video was created, she told him she was 14. "Several of her classmates had found it and shared it with each other," an FBI agent wrote in his affidavit. 'Several of her classmates had found it and shared it'Ī year later, the girl would learn the video was still on Pornhub. She reported the video to Pornhub multiple times, noting it was child pornography under the website's own terms and conditions.īut nothing happened. In November 2018, the girl would learn that a tape of her engaging in sexual behavior had been uploaded to Pornhub, which reported 42 billion visitors in 2019. The girl then posed nude and engaged in sexual behavior as Tyrone watched from his screen – and secretly recorded her. She repeatedly refused, until he promised he would not record her if she did as he asked. She was 14 at the time, and they became friends and started video chatting on FaceTime.ĭuring video chats, Tyrone asked the girl multiple times to take off her clothes and pose nude for him. On March 9, 2020, a teenage girl filed a complaint with police about a man she met on Instagram in 2018. Sawyer was arrested this week and ordered jailed pending the outcome of his case.Īccording to an FBI agent's affidavit, here is what landed Sawyer in federal court: One of her friends alerted her about the videos, and she went to the police, who got the FBI involved. How the predator drew in his victimĪs with his first victim, the second didn't know he was secretly taping her until videos of her surfaced on porn sites, court records show. If convicted, he faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison on the exploitation charge, up to 30 years max. District Court this week, Tyrone Sawyer Jr., 22, of Madison Heights, Michigan, was charged with sexual exploitation of children and distributing child pornography for allegedly videotaping himself having sex with a minor girl and then sharing the video on porn sites. Two years later, he offended again – only this time, the feds got involved. Charges followed, though her Instagram exploiter would do one day in jail. The girl found out and went to the police. Then came a sex tape of the girl that wound up on a porn website – and soon made the rounds at her school.
His first victim was 14, a girl he met on Instagram and coerced into sending him nudes.
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