Jay Walter Sall, 54, of Miami Beach, was sentenced, on February 21, 2019, to a total of 240 months in prison by U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore, for attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity.
Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), Miami Field Office, made the announcement.
According to the court record, Sall communicated with an undercover FBI agent by text messages. In those text messages, Sall solicited and paid for the agent to record sexual intercourse between the agent and the agent’s purported 9-year-old daughter. During the course of the investigation, the FBI also learned that Sall had been secretly recording three other females, two of which were minors at the time of the recordings.
On November 29, 2018, Sall pleaded guilty to attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity. On February 21, 2019, the Honorable K. Michael Moore sentenced Sall to 240 months in prison, 15 years of supervised release, payment of a $50,000 fine, and registration as a sex offender for life.
