Man uses cellmate’s tablet to video chat with 11-year-old, PA officials say

A jail inmate was accused of using his cellmate’s tablet to have sexually explicit video chats with an 11-year-old girl, Pennsylvania officials said.

“He had had contact with a minor unsupervised and any contact with minors under his rules of probation had to be supervised,” Berks County District Attorney John Adams said, according to WFMZ on May 21.

During 30-year-old Tyler Patrick Osborne’s hearing in relation to his probation violation, he heard the 11-year–old’s testimony, court documents said.

While incarcerated at Berks County Jail, Osborne used his cellmate’s prison-issued electronic tablet to contact the girl and sexually abuse her, officials told WCAU.

In April, Osborne video chatted with the girl four times and “repeatedly induced and enticed” her during the calls while recording the abuse, court documents said.

Eventually, detectives gathered the recordings, and the victim’s grandmother was able to identify her as the same child who gave the testimony during Osborne’s hearing, court documents said.

An arrest warrant on charges of sexual abuse of children — photographing, videotaping, depicting on computer or filming sexual acts, sexual abuse of children — possession of child pornography, unlawful contact with a minor, corruption of minors, and criminal use of a communication facility was issued for Osborne, documents said.

Berks County is about a 70-mile drive northwest from Philadelphia.