Philly Man Sentenced For Sex Trafficking Of Bucks Co. Minor: DA

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — A Philadelphia man was sentenced to decades in state prison for the sex trafficking of a 15-year-old girl from Bensalem.

Andrew Hall, 29, was sentenced to 17 to 40 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to two dozen related offenses in February. His charges included felony counts of human trafficking of a minor, statutory sexual assault of a minor, promoting prostitution of a minor, criminal use of a communications facility, unlawful contact with minor, sexual exploitation of children, photographing child sex acts, and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office.

Since his arrest in August 2020, following an investigation by Bensalem Township Police Department and the Bucks County Detectives, Hall has had six misconducts in the Bucks County Correctional Facility, violated orders of having contact with the victim, and has continued making phone calls or attempted to make phone calls after his phone privileges were suspended.

On Aug. 21, 2020, Bensalem police were dispatched to the Best Western, located at 3499 Street Road, for a report of a juvenile being prostituted out of the hotel. Officers found Hall exiting a room and detained him. Inside the room, police located a 15-year-old female who was five months pregnant, along with Hall’s infant child and 4-year-old child.

The 15-year-old told police she had run away from home months earlier and met Hall and his mother at a Motel 6 in Philadelphia. She told investigators that Hall introduced her to a website where he helped her write and post ads for prostitution.

She said she began having sex dates at hotels in Philadelphia and the Best Western in Bensalem, where she shared a room with Hall; the two also had a sexual relationship and Hall would record them having sex and post the recordings online. The money made from the sex dates was used to pay for the room and buy food and drugs.

President Judge Wallace H. Bateman, Jr. also ordered that Hall register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.