Lower Bucks Sex Offender Enticed, Exploited Minor: Feds

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA —A Lower Bucks County registered sex offender has been charged with producing videos and images depicting child sexual abuse and coercing and enticing a minor to engage in criminal sexual conduct with him in England, authorities said.

Gregory J. Barger, 38, of Morrisville, was indicted on Feb. 15 on one count of sexual exploitation of a child – production of child pornography – and one count of coercion and enticement – online enticement of a minor, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger of the District of New Jersey in Trenton announced Friday.

Barger had previously been charged with a criminal complaint with the production offense.

Barger was arraigned on Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp in Trenton federal court and was detained pending trial.

According to court documents and statements made in court: from Aug. 5, 2020, through April 7, 2022, the previously convicted, registered sex offender used an electronic messaging application to communicate with a minor victim located in the United Kingdom.

He induced, enticed, and coerced the minor victim to engage in sexual conduct with Barger.

In February 2022, Barger traveled to the United Kingdom and produced images and videos of Barger engaged in sexual conduct with the minor victim.

Law enforcement later recovered those images and videos from Barger’s cellular phone, which was seized from Barger at the time of his arrest on April 7, 2022, in Hamilton, N.J.

Because of Barger’s prior conviction, the charge of production of child pornography carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 25 years in prison and a maximum potential penalty of 50 years in prison, as well as a $250,000 fine.

The charge of online enticement of a minor carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison and a maximum potential penalty of life in prison, as well as a $250,000 fine.