{"id":520984,"date":"2026-01-16T18:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/520984\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:48:13","slug":"man-sentenced-to-over-20-years-for-child-exploitation-attempted-to-take-missing-girl-from-jacksonville-to-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/520984\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to over 20 years for child exploitation; attempted to take missing girl from Jacksonville to California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 A California man was sentenced to over 20 years in prison for child exploitation and attempting to take a missing 12-year-old girl on a bus from Jacksonville to California, according to the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>RELATED: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/14\/hackers-ai-and-unregulated-online-spaces-pose-emerging-dangers-for-children-experts-warn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/14\/hackers-ai-and-unregulated-online-spaces-pose-emerging-dangers-for-children-experts-warn\/\"><b>Hackers, AI and unregulated online spaces pose emerging dangers for children, experts warn<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Court documents said on Nov. 2, 2023, the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office responded to a Greyhound bus station to investigate a missing girl. Officers found the girl with Gyasi Wallace, 33 who bought two bus tickets to California for him and the girl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">He was arrested and the girl was reunited with her mother. Investigators searched Wallace\u2019s electronic devices and found that he began talking to the girl on a social media site when she was 10-years-old. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The DOJ said his phone had photos and videos of the girl and other children engaging in sexually explicit conduct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cThe exploitation of children leaves scars that last a lifetime\u2014including invisible scars not only for the victims, but for their families and communities,\u201d Homeland Security Investigations Jacksonville Assistant Special Agent in Charge Tim Hemker said. \u201cWallace\u2019s actions were calculated, predatory, and deeply destructive. His calculated attempt to flee across state lines with a minor victim\u2014boarding a bus bound for California\u2014shows the lengths predators will go to evade justice and continue their abuse. Child exploitation is not a crime that ends when the abuse stops; it inflicts lifelong trauma on victims and their families. HSI and our INTERCEPT Task Force partners will remain relentless in our pursuit of justice for victims.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A California man was sentenced to over 20 years in prison for child exploitation and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":520985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,9611,8314,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-520984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-department-of-justice","10":"tag-duval-county","11":"tag-fl","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115906275117830829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520984","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=520984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}