{"id":270889,"date":"2026-04-29T04:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/270889\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T04:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:58:19","slug":"texas-man-charged-with-paying-13-year-old-montgomery-county-girl-for-child-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/270889\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas man charged with paying 13-year-old Montgomery County girl for child porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">A 31-year-old Texas man was charged with allegedly paying a 13-year-old girl in <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/montgomery-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montgomery County<\/a> to make child pornography, authorities said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Mitchell Van Dusen was extradited last week and was being held at the Montgomery County Correctional facility in lieu of $500,000 cash bail, <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.montgomerycountypa.gov\/m\/newsflash\/home\/detail\/4951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.montgomerycountypa.gov\/m\/newsflash\/home\/detail\/4951\">Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">On July 17, 2025, the girl met with Whitpain Township police to describe online interactions she was having since July 4 of the previous year with an unknown man she met in a chat room on the Discord social platform, according to the affidavit of probable cause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The girl said she had been receiving money from the man through the Venmo payment app and was exchanging sexually explicit photos and videos with the man, the affidavit said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">She told him she was 13 and he said he was 29 and was married with two young children, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">They communicated using Snapchat, TikTok, and the Sessions messenger app, the affidavit said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Before speaking to the police, she had received a package containing a vibrator, lingerie, and a necklace from Amazon that the man paid for, the affidavit said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">On July 18, 2025, the day after the girl first spoke with police, images of the man taken from the girl\u2019s phone were provided to the Montgomery County Detective Bureau.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">\u201cUsing investigative means, the male was identified as Mitchell Van Dusen, of Magnolia, Texas,\u201d the affidavit said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Investigators linked the phone number allegedly associated with the Venmo account to Van Dusen, the affidavit said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">On April 8, 2026, detectives from Whitpain Township and Montgomery County traveled to Texas to assist in the execution of a search warrant at Van Dusen\u2019s home in Magnolia, Texas, Steele said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Van Dusen was charged with multiple counts of possessing child sexual abuse material, unlawful contact with a minor, and related offenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">A lawyer at the law firm representing Van Dusen declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min A 31-year-old Texas man was charged with allegedly paying a 13-year-old girl in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100835,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-270889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-montgomery-county-texas-child-porn-arrest","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}