Sex offender looking for 13-year-old girl finds father with gun instead

By Jennifer Cruz

Justin Kyle Phelps, 26, who was convicted of sexual exploitation of a minor in 2011, now faces federal charges. (Photo: Knoxville Police Department)
A 26-year-old man who went to a Knox County home earlier this month with plans to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex found the girl’s father, who was armed with a gun, waiting for him instead.
According to the March 13 criminal complaint, Justin Kyle Phelps, 26, used fake Facebook profiles of two different teenagers to persuade the girl to agree to engage in sexual acts with him and disclose her address so he could meet her for said acts.
Authorities learned that in December the girl received a Facebook friend request from a girl named “Vicky,” who claimed to also be a 13-year-old girl with a mutual interest in modeling. However, authorities believe “Vicky” was a fake profile created by Phelps.
While the conversations between “Vicky” and the young girl appeared to start off as innocent, “Vicky” later pushed the conversations to the topic of sex, with “Vicky” offering to introduce the girl to a teenage boy who she said would help “teach her” about oral sex. “Vicky” also sent supposed photos of herself in questionable poses to the young

Source: Guns.com