San Francisco Sex Offender Sentenced For West Virginia Child Sex Crimes
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 9:20 A.M. ET. 3 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,
HUNTINGTON, W.VA.- On Monday, a 40-year-old San Francisco, California, convicted child sex offender will be spending nearly the next four decades in federal prison for his conviction of multiple child sex crimes committed against a West Virginia child.
On Monday, April 28, 2025, Alex Kai Tick Chin, 40, of San Francisco, California, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Robert C. Chambers to 444 months in federal prison, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release, on the charges of Production of Child Pornography; Enticement of a Minor; and Committing a Sex Crime Against a Minor While a Registered Sex Offender.
According To Court Records
According to Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa G. Johnston and charging documents filed with the District Court, on August 22, 2024, a Federal Jury convicted Chin following a three-day trial. Evidence presented at trial proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, that beginning in and around December 12, 2020, and lasting through February 14, 2021, Chin coerced a minor girl residing within the Southern District of West Virginia to create sexually explicit digital images and videos of herself and send them to him over the social media instant messaging application Snapchat.
During messaging, Chin threatened to harm himself if the girl did not comply with his demands.
Chin Targets Second West Virginia Child
Chin again exchanged messages with a second minor girl during the same time who also resided in the Southern District of West Virginia, engaging in sexually explicit conversations and soliciting nude digital images from her as well. Chin also threatened to harm himself in conversations if the second girl did not comply with his demands.
Chin sent digital images and video files of himself to the second girl, including a digital image of himself masturbating.
Chin continued to communicate with both children until early March 2022, when he drove from California in a white van with a mattress in the back to the Southern District of West Virginia. There, he attempted unsuccessfully to meet both children in person, where he was taken into custody and charged.
At the time he committed these crimes, Chin was a registered sex offender after being convicted of possession of child pornography in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco.
“The defendant was already a convicted sex offender when he targeted these two minor victims online. He groomed them, preyed on their vulnerabilities, and coerced them into sending him pictures,” said acting U.S. Attorney Lisa G. Johnston. “He has shown a complete inability to take any responsibility for his own actions or demonstrate any remorse for his conduct, which was reprehensible in this case.”
