A Kentucky man was charged with sex trafficking a 13-year-old Bucks County girl, coercing the victim through fear to engage in sexual intercourse with two adult males in October.

Zachary Lee McCauley, 29, of Louisville, was charged with one count each of trafficking in individuals, sexual exploitation of children, corruption of minors and criminal use of a communication facility, and three counts each of unlawful contact with a minor and sexual abuse of children.

McCauley was also charged with solicitation to commit statutory sexual assault, solicitation to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, solicitation to commit patronizing victim of sexual servitude, solicitation to commit aggravated indecent assault, and solicitation to commit sexual abuse of children.

McCauley is currently in custody in Kentucky and awaiting extradition.

This investigation conducted by Bucks County Detectives found that McCauley groomed and coerced the victim into having sexual encounters with two adult males, ages 67 and 42, three times during the month of October 2024. At least one of the encounters was video recorded through a Snapchat video call.

The investigation found that McCauley arranged these encounters by communicating with multiple adult males through an online dating site.

The two males who engaged in the statutory sexual assault of the victim were identified as Jon Thomas Van Ingen, 67, of Buckingham Township, and Randy Francis Quinn, 42, of Coopersburg.

Van Ingen was charged with one count of statutory sexual assault and Quinn was charged with two counts of statutory sexual assault and one count each of photographing or filming a child sex act and dissemination of photos or film of child sex acts.

Van Ingen and Quinn were arraigned on Monday by Magisterial District Judge Maggie Snow and released on $150,000 unsecured bail.

“I praise the mother in this case because her instincts were correct,” District Attorney Jennifer Schorn said. “And I praise the victim in this case, she is only 13 years of age, and she is so strong and she is not to be blamed for what occurred. These cases cannot succeed without the amazing team of county detectives and the other detectives throughout Bucks County who make up our Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. They use the resources and their expertise to battle these crimes every single day.”

In February, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office began an investigation into the sex trafficking of the 13-year-old victim. The victim was on Snapchat when an individual on the site added her as a friend. The individual identified himself as “Jake,” and claimed to be 17 years old and was aware that the victim was 13.

“Jake” was later identified as Zachary McCauley.

After a few weeks of communication, McCauley solicited the victim into taking sexually explicit photos and videos, which he had her send to him through Snapchat. She initially refused, but McCauley persisted, and she eventually sent him images. In total, she said she sent him more than 25 sexually explicit videos and images.

During their conversations, McCauley made comments about hurting the victim’s mother, making the victim fearful that he would carry out the threat. At some point, McCauley directed the victim to create an account on the dating site Grindr and give him the login credentials. When the victim told McCauley she could not create an account because of her age, McCauley told her to lie and claim to be 18 years old.

After the profile was created, McCauley added images of the victim in various pieces of lingerie. He also created a fake identification card (a school ID) that listed the victim by a different name and with a date of birth as 18 years old.

McCauley would then access the Grindr account and communicate with other users, soliciting dates with the victim. When he couldn’t access the account, he would direct the victim to send him screenshots of the conversations she had with the other users, so he could tell her what to say to them.

McCauley arranged numerous encounters with men and the victim, which ultimately led to her meeting with three of them. Two of the men engaged in statutory sexual intercourse with the victim, but the third encounter ended when the male became suspicious of the victim’s age. All of the encounters happened in October in Bucks County.

Through the investigation, Jon Van Ingen and Randy Quinn were identified as the two men who met the victim for sexual encounters arranged by McCauley. In one of the encounters, Quinn was on a Snapchat video call with McCauley and the sexual assault was recorded.

The victim communicated with McCauley posing as “Jake” in multiple ways, including various Snapchat accounts, Instagram and phone calls. The victim never met McCauley in person, and only once saw his face when he inadvertently turned on his camera during a Snapchat video call.

This investigation was conducted by Detectives with the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office. The Kentucky Office of the Attorney General and Saint Matthews Police Department in Kentucky also assisted with the investigation and arrest of McCauley on April 2, 2025.

This case is assigned for prosecution to Chief Deputy District Attorney Kristin M. McElroy.

Media Contact: Manuel Gamiz Jr., 215.348.6298, mgamiz@buckscounty.org

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