Kentucky Male Arrested For Trafficking Underage Girls For Sex With Bucks County Males
by Alex Lloyd Gross
Zachary McCauley. was arrested by authorities in Kentucky after he arranged for adult males in Bucks County to have sex with an underage girl. One girl was 13 and friended a male on Snapchat. This male was called Jake. He told her he was 17. That was a lie. In reality, it was McCauley, authorities said.
Over the course of a few weeks McCauley asked her for naked photos. At first, the girl refused but later relented and sent him 25 different photographs and videos.During their conversations, McCauley made comments about hurting the victim’s mother, making the victim fearful that he would carry out the threat. At some point, McCauley directed the victim to create an account on the dating site Grindr and give him the login credentials. When the victim told McCauley she could not create an account because of her age, McCauley told her to lie and claim to be 18 years old.
McCauley is alleged to have used a fake school id to prove the girl was 18. He would then upload sexy photos of the 13 year old and communicate with the men. Ultimately, the girl met with three males for sex in Bucks County.Two of the men engaged in statutory sexual intercourse with the victim, but the third encounter ended when the male became suspicious of the victim’s age, authorities said.
Through the investigation, Jon Van Ingen and Randy Quinn were identified as the two men who met the victim for sexual encounters arranged by McCauley. In one of the encounters, Quinn was on a Snapchat video call with McCauley and the sexual assault was recorded. The victim communicated with McCauley posing as “Jake” in multiple ways, including various Snapchat accounts, Instagram and phone calls. The victim never met McCauley in person, and only once saw his face when he inadvertently turned on his camera during a Snapchat video call.
Zachary Lee McCauley, 29, of Louisville, was charged with one count each of trafficking in individuals, sexual exploitation of children, corruption of minors and criminal use of a communication facility, and three counts each of unlawful contact with a minor and sexual abuse of children. McCauley was also charged with solicitation to commit statutory sexual assault, solicitation to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, solicitation to commit patronizing victim of sexual servitude, solicitation to commit aggravated indecent assault, and solicitation to commit sexual abuse of children.
Both males who engaged in the statutory sexual assault of the victim were identified as Jon Thomas Van Ingen, 67, of Buckingham Township, and Randy Francis Quinn, 42, of Coopersburg. Van Ingen was charged with one count of statutory sexual assault and Quinn was charged with two counts of statutory sexual assault and one count each of photographing or filming a child sex act and dissemination of photos or film of child sex acts. Van Ingen and Quinn were arraigned on Monday by Magisterial District Judge Maggie Snow and released on $150,000 unsecured bail.