Miami Beach Man Sentenced To 20 Years On Child Sex Charge

MIAMI, FL -- A 54-year-old Miami Beach man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for attempting to lure a minor into having sex.

Jay Walter Sall was also sentenced by U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore to 15 years of supervised release, a fine $50,000 fine, and registration as a sex offender for life .

U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan of Miami and Special Agent George L. Piro of the FBI in Miami announced the sentence Friday night.

"Sall communicated with an undercover FBI agent by text messages. In those text messages, Sall solicited and paid for the agent to record sexual intercourse between the agent and the agent’s purported 9-year-old daughter," according to federal prosecutors. "During the course of the investigation, the FBI also learned that Sall had been secretly recording three other females, two of which were minors at the time of the recordings."

Sall pleaded guilty to attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity on Nov. 29. The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice.

Led by U.S. Attorneys’ offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, the initiative coordinates federal, state and local resources to locate, apprehend and prosecute people who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. Visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov for more information.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Cervantes.