Sex Offender Charged With More Crimes By Farmington Police

FARMINGTON, CT — A registered sex offender who has been incarcerated since February for violating his probation was charged last week by Farmington police with enticing a minor via computer.

David Yescott, 46, was served a warrant Tuesday at Hartford Superior Court. He has been in custody since Feb. 11, 2019 in lieu of $150,000 bond on three counts of violation of probation.

According to an affidavit supporting Yescott's arrest, he was convicted of risk of injury to a minor on Aug. 1, 2003, and was sentenced to 12 years in jail, suspended after 50 months, and issued 15 years of probation with several conditions to include registry on the Sexual Offender Registry, sexual offender evaluation and treatment, and no computer access.

He was released from the Department of Correction in 2006, but in early 2009, his probation was revoked due to violations, including utilizing a phone chat line to meet women, and was sent back to prison. He again was released in May 2010, only to have his probation again revoked in Aug. 2011 after engaging in sexual conversation with minor females on the lnternet, the affidavit states.

In Aug. 2013, Yescott was again released from prison, and in March 2015, he successfully completed sex offender treatment with "The Connection lnc.," according to the affidavit.

According to the arrest warrant, police received information about Yescott again becoming involved online with underage persons. Police seized his company-owned Apple iPad, which allegedly shows Yescott "engaged with an individual who he was told was underage in a chat room, www.chatib.us." The complainant told police he was posing online as a 14-year-old girl when contacted by Yescott.

A forensic study of the iPad shows 2,178 Web history artifacts, including 996 deleted, from a site which promotes "prime jailbait ... the best jailbait and teen photo gallery on the net," the affidavit states. In the report, Sgt. Stephen Egan called this "alarming search material, particularly for a registered sex offender on probation."

After threat of disclosure, Yescott wired $225 via Western Union under the name "David Michaels" to the complainant in the United Kingdom "to discourage him from going to the authorities," according to the arrest warrant.

On Aug. 14, 2018, probation officers searched Yescott's residence, pursuant to the conditions of probation that Yescott had signed and agreed to upon his release from prison. They seized multiple items of digital media, including five tablets, two smart phones, two laptops, two cell phones, two smart watches, an iPod and several thumb drives, according to the affidavit.

"Yescott admitted to a probation officer that he spends several hours per day chatting online with different females, many of whom he knows are minors." He also admitted to "chatting online with someone whom he thought was a 14-year-old female and later sending that person $225," the report states.

The affidavit indicates there were no child pornography images located on any of the media seized from Yescott's residence, nor is there actual evidence of any sexual intercourse with a minor. The certified forensic analysis report noted no less than 606 images that were sexually stimulating in nature, 1,593 images of women and young girls, as well as several social media web sites to include Chatib, KlK, Text now and omegle.com, a free online chat web site that allows users to socialize with others without the need to register.

Bond was set at $100,000 on the enticing charge. Yescott is slated to return to court June 14.

He is listed as "non-compliant, failed to verify address" on the latest sex offender registry listing.