Eagle Mountain man arrested for paying 13-year-old for sexual photos, documents say

EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah (ABC4) — An Eagle Mountain man has been arrested and charged with sending payments to a 13-year-old girl in exchange for sexual photos.

Jaxson Thomas Fox, 22, has been charged with 18 counts of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, a first-degree felony, and two counts of voyeurism, a Class A misdemeanor.

According to documents, an investigator with the Utah County Sheriff’s Office was sent a CyberTip referral from the Little Rock Police Department involving a case in their jurisdiction where a 13-year-old female child was exchanging sexual photos of herself with an adult man for money.

The adult man, later identified as Fox, was sending the 13-year-old child payments over Apple Pay and making specific requests for the minor, making her create child sexual abuse material (CSAM) of herself and share it with him.

A search warrant was obtained for Fox’s residence, and police interviewed him regarding the incident. Fox allegedly admitted to meeting the underage child through social media and said that he knew she was a minor. He said that he would send the 13-year-old payments in exchange for fulfilling his requests and creating CSAM.

Graphic sexual messages from Fox to the 13-year-old were located, and his payments to the underage girl totaled around $430, documents say.

Previously, Fox had faced charges for uploading CSAM in 2022, but a search warrant served on his residence did not return anything because he was out of town, and police were not aware that he lived there. They spoke with the homeowners, who did not possess any CSAM, and the case was closed.

During the police interview, he allegedly told police that he was the one who had uploaded the CSAM in that 2022 incident. Fox also admitted that he had sent and received CSAM from other individuals and has a “sexual interest” in young teenagers. Police discovered that Fox had access to a girl around this age, but he stated that he had not done anything to her.

The detective investigating the case located CSAM on Fox’s phone, as well as two videos where he secretly recorded adult women in changing rooms at a store.

Fox was booked into the Utah County Jail and is currently being held without bail.