Detectives recall disturbing messages found on iPad of teen girl lured from home

A man accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl faced a judge on Tuesday.

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Police tell Channel 11 that Christopher Jones and the girl met on the Discord app -- and after two days of messaging, he drove 300 miles across the state to pick her up. A key to this investigation was finding the victim’s iPad -- which had two days’ worth of messages.

Christopher Jones hid from our Channel 11 cameras as two constables brought him back to the Allegheny County Jail.

Jones had just sat through his preliminary hearing -- where he heard a detective read the dozens of sexually explicit text messages he’s accused of sending to the victim.

Some of those messages, according to the detective, were about how he wanted to keep her in a cage.

“Do you regret sending those messages?” Channel 11 asked Jones.

In addition to the sexual messages, detectives say he claimed he wanted to take her to an amusement park and Build-A-Bear.

But those outings never happened because police tracked Jones down by his cell phone records and license plate readers, brought the girl home, and took him to jail.

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