Local man accused of online child sex crimes in the Phillippines

Raymond Fosnight was tracked by Intranet Crimes Against Children

FORT WAYNE, Ind. ---Working with a task force focusing on people paying for sex crimes perpetrated against children in the Philippines, a Lebanon Police Department detective’s internet search landed on a Fort Wayne suspect.

An internet account detected by Intranet Crimes Against Children came back to Raymond J. Fosnight,56, of Fort Wayne.

Friday, Lebanon’s Det. Austin McClosky, armed with a search warrant signed by a Boone County judge, asked the Fort Wayne Police Department to use the warrant to search Fosnight’s home in the 7500 block of Covington Hollow Lane, according to a probable cause affidavit submitted by FWPD Det. Charles Volz.

Some of the things divulged to McClosky and Volz are simply too revolting to include in this story. The alleged crimes occurred between Feb. 1, 2023 and Jan. 31, 2024 on Skype.

During an interview, Fosnight admitted to “requesting sexual acts done to a 7 to 9 year old.” He said he may have done this 100 times, court documents said.

Under questioning, Fosnight initially admitted to looking at porn sites, his preferred site, “Sexy Asians” where he paid money for desperate people to perform sexual acts.

Fosnight said he “usually” looked at women 30 to 40 years old, but had seen “pop ups” for juveniles. He confessed that he liked watching videos “where people are acting out incest scenes” and searched specifically for those, court documents said.

His addiction to porn had morphed to hard core because “the usual stuff does not do it for me anymore.”

On his iPad so as to hide his activities from his family, Fosnight was contacting Filipinos asking them to “do sexual acts to their children,” according to McCloskey’s investigation. 

During these video sessions,  Fosnight would claim that his own daughter was performing oral sex acts on him, however, he claimed that was just a tactic to get the women to stop asking him for money “by making them think he was ‘disgusting’," court documents said.

Normally he tipped women around $20 each time and estimated he spent $50 a week on this activity.

During his interactions with the victims, he pleasured himself - the better word to use - and would comment on his physical reaction.

On June 5 while interviewing with Volz and McClosky, who was on speaker phone, Fosnight correctly identified his online user name, although, at first he did not, court documents said.

According to several online sources, the Philippines is notorious and the epicenter for these online encounters.

An article posted in 2025 by Humanium, an international non-governmental organization, a study by the International Justice Mission (IJM) “found that the number of Philippine IP addresses tied to this type of abuse jumped from about 23,000 in 2014 to over 81,000 in 2017, representing a 250% increase.”

Reasons for this explosion of child sex exploitation include “widespread poverty, high English proficiency, affordable internet access, and the availability of digital payment systems. 

“These conditions have made it easier for foreign offenders to commission and view live-streamed abuse, often facilitated by relatives or acquaintances of the victims.”

Using financial reports starting in 2015, IJM found that the U.S. had the highest volume of suspicious financial transactions linked to online child exploitation in the Philippines, with the UK, Australia and Canada just behind.

Fosnight has been charged with Level 4 Felony vicarious sexual gratification and a Level 5 Felony possession of child pornography. 

His next scheduled hearing is June 22.

Allen County deputy prosecutor Rebecca Grove has been assigned to the case. As yet, Fosnight has no attorney listed in court documents.