APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) – An Appleton man will spend the next 13 years in federal prison for attempted to have sex with an underage teen.
36-year-old Neil Frank was sentenced for seeking to entice a child into having sexual intercourse.
In May of 2020, Frank used a popular social media site to communicate with a 15-year-old located in Appleton. Frank requested graphic digital images and expressed his desire to have intercourse with the child. On May 18th, he drove to an apartment complex where he believed that child lived. When he arrived, he was taken into custody by an undercover Fox Valley Metro Police officer.
Frank was already a registered sex offender in Wisconsin following a 2012 conviction for attempted possession of child pornography in Outagamie County.
The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse.
