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The Tennessee Conservative Staff –
A Chattanooga lawyer has been arrested on federal charges of sexual exploitation of children.
Patrick Bryant Hawley is charged with sexual exploitation of children, coercion and enticement, and animal crushing, as well as receipt, possession and distribution of materials involving sexual exploitation of minors.
According to authorities, police received a lead on April 22 from an agent in South Carolina who was investigating several chat groups that centered around the viewing and distribution of child porn.
The agent provided information on an individual with the username ULTIMATEDADBOD, who stated that he was a 42-year-old named Patrick who lived in Tennessee.
The agent said he was posing as the mother of a four-year-old daughter when Patrick began chatting with him on April 12. Patrick told the agent that he wanted to meet the mother and daughter and also elaborated on sexual acts he would like to engage in with the minor. Additionally, he offered the mother advice on how to “groom” the child for sexual abuse.
The user was identified through one of the five images he sent of himself. One showed a certificate hanging on the wall with the name “Patrick Bryant Hawley” on it. Another image had GPS coordinates attached that linked to the law office where Hawley practices.
In mid-September, another undercover agent, who was located in Ontario, Canada, began chatting with Hawley. This time, Hawley’s username was “hejumps around” and was traced to his home address on Hermitage Avenue in Lookout Mountain.
Hawley expressed to the officer that he would like to have a relationship with a female pedophile and suggested that she should expose her children to pornography and should also sleep in the same bed with them, along with sexual partners.
In addition to photos of himself, Hawley shared images of a woman that he identified as his ex-fiancee with mice and rats in her private area.
“The love of my life…she was the first woman I dated who touched her daughters. She was very, very conflicted about it,” Hawley shared.
Agents also noted that in October they joined a chat room where Hawley shared a number of child porn videos, some including infants and toddlers.
On October 29, Hawley told a third agent that he was “mainly into pedomoms, but you can’t have pedomoms without littles…”
Last week, the FBI discovered that Hawley had also been communicating with a 14-year-old girl in Pennsylvania. The girl stated that Hawley sent her several child pornography videos and admitted that she had sent several explicit images of herself.
Hawley showed up for a face-to-face meeting with one of the agents who had been communicating with him on Thursday and was arrested.
As reported by The Chattanoogan, Magistrate Susan K. Lee ordered that Hawley remain in custody until his arraignment on Friday morning.
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