Jerry Foster, a 59-year-old group home employee, is under arrest for allegedly sending inappropriate, sexual messages via email, cell phone and chat rooms to a 15-year-old Pinellas County teenage girl. In a story on TampaBay.com, deputies from Pinellas and Oviedo coordinated the arrest of Foster who posed as a 20-year-old while communicating with the girl.
Foster works in a group home for teen boys called Laurel Hill and he became the target of an investigation after the teen’s mother heard inappropriate voice mails left for her daughter by what sounded to her like an older man. Detectives then discovered explicit chat room logs from Foster to the young girl. At that point they set up a sting and allege they had Foster sending more sexually explicit chat messages to who he thought was the teenager.
If you have been charged with a sex crime in St. Petersburg or Pinellas County please do not hesitate to contact Criminal Defense Attorney Stephen Higgins at 1-800-FIGHT-IT (1-800-344-4848) to discuss the matter or visit our website FightYourPinellasArrest.com. Also you can contact Stephen via email or by stopping in our Clearwater office located at 4500 140th Ave. North #203.