JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 The Justice Department says a Jacksonville man is facing a child sex crime charge. According to the DOJ, 37-year-old Jerry Cobb is being charged with attempting to entice a 13-year-old to engage in sexual activity.<\/p>\n
\u25b6 Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n According to court documents between July 18 and August 1, an FBI agent conducted an undercover operation on a social media app to find adults who were looking for minors to have sex. The agent and the user \u201cJerry,\u201d several messages on the app, as well as text messages. The documents say that after the agent told \u201cJerry\u201d that she was 13 years old, he texted “[w]e can be friends,” and asked her for the location of her house, if she could \u201csneak out at night,\u201d and if she was a \u201cvirgin.\u201d<\/p>\n Documents say that on July 30, \u201cJerry\u201d told the child they should meet and said, \u201c[y]ou want to just get a hotel room?\u201d and later suggested having sex in the room, promising to bring and use a condom.<\/p>\n On August 1, Cobb allegedly asked the child for an explicit photo of herself and made plans to meet for sex in Jacksonville that day. Later that evening, Cobb was seen at that location where he intended to meet the minor and was arrested by FBI agents.<\/p>\n If convicted, Cobb faces up to life in federal prison.<\/p>\n [The information in this post is based largely on information released by the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office. The reader is reminded that all persons suspected of a crime are innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.]<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n \u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 The Justice Department says a Jacksonville man is facing a child sex crime charge. According…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,12424,67724,67725,67726,4364,20494,12190,44516,8140,67727,193,5375,25250,3188,723,22739,67728,67729,7310,5333,3228,47501,981,67730,67731,7207,3430,67732,4995,67733,40088,39788,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,55486],"class_list":{"0":"post-148929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arrest","10":"tag-bdsm","11":"tag-bondage","12":"tag-bracelets","13":"tag-capture","14":"tag-chains","15":"tag-closed","16":"tag-closeup","17":"tag-criminal","18":"tag-cuffs","19":"tag-detail","20":"tag-enforcement","21":"tag-equipment","22":"tag-fl","23":"tag-florida","24":"tag-focus","25":"tag-handcuffs","26":"tag-imprisonment","27":"tag-jacksonville","28":"tag-jail","29":"tag-law","30":"tag-locked","31":"tag-metal","32":"tag-metal-handcuffs","33":"tag-metalllic","34":"tag-police","35":"tag-presentation","36":"tag-restraint-devices","37":"tag-security","38":"tag-shackles","39":"tag-tabletop","40":"tag-torture","41":"tag-united-states","42":"tag-united-states-of-america","43":"tag-unitedstates","44":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","45":"tag-us","46":"tag-usa","47":"tag-vintage"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}