An Oregon man was arrested by the FBI on March 21 in Portland, Ore. after a federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment charging him with transporting a minor with the intent to have the child engage in criminal sexual activity.
According to court documents, in 2019, Steven Fox, 59, moved from Pendleton, Ore., to Anchorage. At some point that year, Fox allegedly presented himself as a long-lost “uncle” to a family with two minor daughters. He began caring for the minors.
Court documents say that in January 2020, Fox took the minors from Alaska to Oregon and started sexually abusing one of the minors, who was 9 years old at the time, almost immediately after leaving Alaska.
Fox is charged with one count of transportation of minors. The defendant was scheduled to make his initial court appearance before an Oregon judge last week. If convicted, he faces between 10 years to life in prison. A federal district court judge will determine any potential sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
U.S. Attorney Michael J. Heyman of the District of Alaska and Special Agent in Charge Rebecca Day of the FBI Anchorage Field Office made the announcement.
The FBI Anchorage Field Office and Anchorage Police Department investigated the case as part of the FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, with assistance from the Pendleton Police Department and FBI Portland Field Office. If anyone has information concerning Fox’s alleged actions, please contact the FBI Anchorage Field Office (907) 276-4441 or anonymously at tips.fbi.gov.
If guilty, my hope is a very special place in Hell is reserved for this man.
The creep deserves nothing less than the death penalty. We need real consequences for sexually abusing and trafficking children.
Death penalty.
The ritualistic sexual abuse and mutilation of children should not be tolerated.
Abortion, trans genital surgeries, incest, trafficking, pedophilia – it all comes from the same place.
Evil.
“Fox allegedly presented himself as a long-lost “uncle” to a family with two minor daughters. He began caring for the minors”
There’s got to be more to this backstory. Who wouldn’t vet someone claiming to be an unknown “long-lost” relative? I guess, maybe, people are more stupid than I give them credit for?
What kind of parents leave their two young daughters to an invented uncle? They’re certainly complicit.