Man Who Sought Sex with Woman and Child in Barrow Sentenced

A South Carolina man who traveled to Barrow County with the intention of having sexual relations with strangers he believed to be a mother and her 8-year-old daughter has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. 

David Alan Wolf, 63, of Rock Hill, S.C., was sentenced Tuesday, Aug. 13, by United States District Judge William C. O’Kelley. His prison sentence is to be followed by lifetime supervised release. Wolf was also ordered to pay a fine of $5,000 and will be required to register as a sex offender. 

“After this defendant used the internet to arrange for a sexual encounter with a vulnerable, eight-year-old girl, he then traveled to Atlanta in an effort to commit this repugnant act,” United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said in a news release. “Thankfully, there was no eight-year-old, and law enforcement arrested him. Sexual predators have no place in our community and we will see to it that they are caught, prosecuted, and punished.”

Wolf was arrested by Barrow County authorities Aug. 28, 2012. According to a news release, Wolf had contact with a county investigator operating undercover and posing as a 34-year-old female with an 8-year-old daughter. Wolf indicated he was interested in engaging in sex acts with the investigator’s daughter, including oral sex and intercourse. He and the undercover investigator communicated online for almost two weeks, and during that time, Wolf described in detail his sexual fantasies and the sex acts he would perform on child. He then traveled from South Carolina to Georgia to meet the investigator and her fictitious daughter and was arrested upon his arrival.

“The Barrow County Sheriff’s Office will continue to be vigilant in our attempt to apprehend those who prey on our children,” Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith said in the release. “Our Investigators are working very hard every day to keep these predators off the streets and protect our communities.”