LAUDERDALE COUNTY-On Thursday, January 17 a Lauderdale County man was arrested and charged with several sexual charges against a child.
According to the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office Michael Tays, 32 is facing two counts of first-degree sodomy, one count of sexual abuse of a child under 12, one count of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
According to investigators videos and photographs of a young girl engaging in sex acts was discovered on Tay’s phone.
The media was discovered by the child’s mother on Tay’s phone on Wednesday, January 16.
According to authorities further charges could be made after the phone has been forensically analyzed.
Michael Tay according to investigators has confessed to photographing and video taping the images of the child. Tay’s bond has been set at $250,000.