Mt. Lebanon man to spend at least 20 years in prison for sexual abuse of teen
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A Mt. Lebanon man will serve at least 20 years in prison for sexual abuse of a minor after he was sentenced in state and federal court this week.
Andrew Foxx, 43, pleaded guilty in May to charges in both courts stemming from the same set of facts.
According to the criminal complaint in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, Foxx, who changed his name in 2014 from Andrew Liles, began “dating” a 14-year-old girl in January 2022.
Within months, police said, the two engaged in sexual activity.
Foxx would frequently ask the girl to send him nude pictures, and he secretly recorded them having sex.
Their communication was primarily through social media.
Allegheny County Police charged Foxx in March 2023 with rape and related counts, and he pleaded guilty to statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, unlawful contact with a minor and corruption.
The U.S. Attorney’s office filed federal charges against Foxx, as well, including sexual exploitation of a minor for producing and possessing a video of the abuse.
As part of the plea agreement in Common Pleas Court, Fox will serve 15 to 30 years in prison, to be followed by eight years probation. He also must register for the rest of his life as a sex offender.
In federal court, also as part of a plea agreement, Foxx was ordered on Tuesday to serve 23 years in federal prison. However, only five years of that sentence is required to run consecutively to the state case, bringing his minimum prison term to at least 20 years.
During Wednesday’s hearing in Common Pleas Court, both the victim and her mother addressed Judge Bruce Beemer.
The mother called Foxx a “monster.”
She told the court that Foxx convinced her daughter to sneak out, skip school and run away.
“These are years we’ll never get back, and the pain never goes away,” she said. “The pain never goes away because pain and trauma change you.”
The victim said Foxx, who earned money as a video game streamer, manipulated her.
“I said no, but that didn’t stop Andrew,” she said.
He convinced her he loved her, she said, and drove a wedge between her and her mom.
Foxx made no comment to the court.
His attorney, Jonathan Coumes, said his client spent much of his youth in foster care and juvenile homes and suffered abuse.
“Mr. Foxx had a pretty terrible childhood by any measure,” Coumes said. “Those experiences probably had something to do with why we’re here today.”
According to federal court records, Foxx has a lengthy criminal history involving crimes against minors and women. He was previously convicted in Florida for violating a protection against domestic violence order, and in Pennsylvania for simple assault.
He also pleaded guilty at age 18 to child molestation in Georgia.
“In sum, defendant’s criminal history evidences a troubling pattern of escalating criminal conduct against minors and females,” the U.S. attorney’s office wrote. “None of Foxx’s prior incarceration sentences and subsequent supervision have deterred him from committing future crime.”
The circumstances in this case, the prosecution said, “are egregious.”
“Mr. Foxx’s criminal conduct here demonstrates a sexual deviancy combined with an utter disregard for the rule of law that justifies the government’s concern that he may continue to put the community at risk, regardless of his age, upon release.”