Texas: Dad gets 60 years in prison for trying to sell 4-year-old daughter on Craigslist

A man was sentenced to 60 years of life imprisonment for attempting to sell his four-year-old daughter for sexon Craigslist in Texas on Friday.

30-year-old, Andrew Turley, has been convicted under the charges of trafficking a child and compelling prostitution of someone under the age of 18.

Turley, in 2015, had posted an advertisement on Craiglist saying  “Play with Daddie’s Little Girl”. On reading this advertisement an undercover officer went to meet Turley and his daughter. Turley, his daughter and her mother lived at an apartment in Houston.

Turley told the officers it was that he would charge $1300 for two hours with his daughter and stated the child “might be too young for intercourse but everything else was OK”.

 “Upon the undercover officer’s arrival, Turley checked the cash, then escorted him to a bedroom where the girl was lying in bed and appeared to be ‘under the influence of an unknown substance’,” the attorney’s office said.

Assistant District Attorney Stewanna Miskell, one of the prosecutors, said the case “broke her heart.” “A father is supposed to be a protector not a predator. Jurors saw the need to keep him out of our community,” she said.

Craiglist is an American classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, for sale, items wanted, services, community etc. Craiglist has recently removed the personal section from the list after the Congress sent a bill to President Trump aimed at curtailing sex traffickimg.