David Fuchs (Photo courtesy: Wisconsin Department of Corrections)
(WTAQ-WLUK) — A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment for attempted sexual exploitation of a minor against a convicted sex offender from southern Wisconsin.
David Fuchs, 40, of Janesville, is facing charges alleging that he attempted to sexually exploit a minor and persuade that minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct. Fuchs faces a second charge of committing a felony offense involving a minor as an individual required to register as a sex offender.
Officials say Fuchs engaged in online conversation with an undercover law enforcement officer from the Outagamie County Sheriff’s Office, who was posing as a 12-year-old girl.
During the conversation, Fuchs repeatedly described his desire to have sex with the child, sending multiple explicit photographs of himself and requesting explicit photographs from the undercover officer. Fuchs explained to the undercover officer, in explicit terms, how he intended to “teach” the young girl how to have sexual intercourse. During many of the sexually explicit conversations, Fuchs expressed his belief that the 12-year-old girl was in school.
Fuchs planned to meet the girl at a travel plaza near Madison, promising to bring her art supplies. On March 15, he arrived at the travel plaza and was arrested by U.S. Marshals. Officers located art supplies and a marijuana pipe in his truck.
Fuchs was also communicating online with undercover officers from the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Office and the Madison Police Department, who he believed to be underage girls.
Fuchs is a registered sex offender with prior convictions in Wisconsin for attempted second degree sexual assault of a child and sexual assault of an intoxicated victim. Authorities say he was released from state prison in April 2022 and was on supervision at the time of the offenses alleged in the federal indictment.
If convicted of both charges, Fuchs faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years in federal prison.
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