Man arrested for child porn, solicitation of child sex

PALMER — After six months of investigation, tapped phone calls, bank deposits and monitored online chats, police arrested a 20-year-old man, alleging he’d been trying to arrange to have sex with a 10-year-old girl.

According to a sworn statement Palmer Police officer Luke Szipszky filed in the case against Dylan Klebesadel, 20, of Palmer, the case began July 27 when a woman approached police to talk about a bizarre conversation she’d had with her co-worker Klebesadel.

She said Klebesadel had talked with her about sex in the past but she’d shut down his advances. Then he called her on the phone and she told him her car had broken down and would cost $500 to fix.

“He said he would give her $1,000. She asked Klebesadel what he wanted her to do for the money. Klebesadel replied he wanted her to set him up with a girl, between the ages of 8 and 12 ‘to get with,’” Szipszky wrote.

Later in the week he passed his co-worker a note saying what kind of girl he was looking for: under 10 years old, white, thin, preferably in her own bed.

Still later, police recorded a phone conversation between Klebesadel and his co-worker in which he told her a trip to the Philippines for underage sex would cost him $2,500 but he wanted to pay only $500. He told the woman he was kind of hoping the lower payment would make her back off but that for $500 he couldn’t pass up the opportunity.

Over the next couple weeks, Klebesadel laid out in intimate detail his sexual admiration of young girls and what he was looking to do with his victim. He talked about drugging the girl and videotaping it, tagging at the end of the video a solicitation for donations from online viewers. But he seemed to think the money would go to his victim.

“Klebesadel said the girl would trade trauma as a 10-year-old for a paid-for college,” Szipszky wrote.

On Aug. 4, the woman told the police Klebesadel had deposited $250 in her bank account.

“I asked (her) to send a text message to Klebesadel stating she wanted the whole $500 or the deal was off and she would give the money back if he didn’t do it,” Szipszky wrote.

Klebesadel asked for the money back but then in October gave her $60 and then another $30.

Around this time is when the monitored online chats started happening between Klebesadel and someone posing as a 10-year-old fictitious girl named Amy.

In October, Klebesadel started saying he wanted to have sex with the girl in November. On Nov. 11, 2011, Szipszky got a text message from Klebesadel’s co-worker, forwarded from Klebesadel.

“In the message, Klebesadel said he had been disowned by his father. He had asked his dad for more money out of a trust fund so he could give it to (her). The father asked what it was for, and Klebesadel said he told him the truth instead of lying about the reason,” Szipszky wrote.

At the end of November, Szipszky brought Klebesadel into the Palmer police station for an interview. Klebesadel laid out most of the details just as Szipszky described them.

“Klebesadel said he had ‘pedophilia’ and had been in treatment for it, however, his last therapy session was over one year ago,” Szipszky.

Officers later searched Klebesadel’s Palmer home, seizing multiple computer hard drives and thumb drives. A warrant served on them on Dec. 14, 2011, turned up 128 images and one movie of child pornography.

Szipszky wrote that after talking to the district attorney’s office he applied for an arrest warrant Feb. 28.

Palmer police reported in a press release issued Monday that Klebesadel was arrested that day, charged with solicitation to commit sexual abuse of a minor and possession of child pornography. His bail was set at $50,000. As of Tuesday afternoon he was still lodged at the Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility. Before he can be released he’ll need to find someone to watch over him.

Contact reporter Andrew Wellner at andrew.wellner@frontiersman.com or 352-2270.