{"id":235345,"date":"2025-09-18T02:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235345\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T02:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:55:14","slug":"phoenix-man-pleads-guilty-to-sexual-exploitation-of-a-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235345\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix man pleads guilty to sexual exploitation of a minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDEPENDENT NEWSMEDIA<\/p>\n<p>A Phoenix man pleaded guilt to three counts relating to exploitation of a minor.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Votey pleaded guilt to\u00a0 one count of sexual exploitation of a minor, a class 2 felony, and two counts of attempt to commit sexual exploitation of a minor, class 3 felonies, according to the Arizona Attorney General&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Votey is scheduled for sentencing\u00a0 on Oct. 27.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement became aware of Votey through an online investigation. During the investigation, Votey sent an undercover agent multiple images and videos of child exploitative materials, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Votey was later contacted by law enforcement and admitted to viewing and distributing child exploitative materials via various apps and websites, according to the press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"in-story-ad\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDEPENDENT NEWSMEDIA A Phoenix man pleaded guilt to three counts relating to exploitation of a minor. Christopher Votey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":235346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-235345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115223050643039273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235345","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=235345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}