PERRY COUNTY, Ohio — A Perry County man was sentenced to 23 years in prison on Thursday for sexually exploiting minors and possessing child sexual abuse materials, according to U.S Attorney Kenneth Parker.
The attorney's office said since 2018, 28-year-old Clay Thomas Wolfe, of Junction City, had solicited child sexual abuse material from more than 300 victims from Snapchat. Around 100 of the victims were identified by law enforcement as minors from multiple states including Ohio, Pennsylvania and Kentucky.
Wolfe created a fake persona on Snapchat, pretending to be a 15-year-old girl named Ally, and used it to solicit child sexual abuse material from mostly middle school and high school boys. His Snapchat account also contained explicit photos and videos of minors as young as 10 and 11 years old, Parker's office said.
The investigation was initiated in April 2022 when law enforcement in Pennsylvania learned that a sixth-grade student was sharing an explicit photo of a classmate that he had received from Wolfe while he was pretending to be “Ally.”
In total, Wolfe received approximately 850 images and 570 videos depicting child sexual abuse.
Wolfe was arrested and charged federally in June 2023 and pleaded guilty in April 2024.
