Sex-crime activist in kid-sex arrest

A former Columbia University student who made international headlines for his efforts to halt sexual violence against children admitted Thursday to sex with a 15-year-old boy and possessing child porn, authorities said.

Joel Davis, 24, once rumored as a Nobel Peace Prize nominee for his activism on behalf of child sex-crime victims, could get a life in prison, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said in a statement.

The ex-Ivy Leaguer admitted in Manhattan Federal Court that he had illegal sexual activity with a 15-year-old boy after setting up a meeting with the teen in June 2018.

Davis (inset) allegedly sent child pornography pictures to an undercover FBI agent and sought to

Stuyvesant Town basketball legend John “Butch” engage in sex with another Purcell III wasn’t a pro agent’s make-believe 9year-old player — but he made everyone and 2-year-old around him feel daughters. like one, his son remembered

He also admitted that Thursday. during May and June Purcell (inset), who 2018, he received and distributed died this week at a wide array of age 74, coached pornography featuring in the Rucker young children — including Pro League, a children younger than summer basketball 12 years old, Berman said. league that

His sentencing is set for included amateur May 7. He faces a minimum and professional of 10 years in prison players. and a maximum sentence An amateur of life on charges that Rucker League player include enticing a child to who heard of Purcell’s engage in sexual activity. death called his son. “I

Davis in 2014 was a wasn’t a pro,” the man told founder of a nonprofit organization John Purcell IV. “But he called Youth to made me feel like one.” End Sexual Violence. The “I think that is how a lot group’s aim was to help of people in his life would end sex assaults on children, feel,” the younger Purcell particularly in wartorn said. “He would make areas. people around him feel

He told Columbia University’s like they were the most student newspaper important person in the in 2017 that he was a room.” victim of rape. Purcell and his wife