Officer pleads guilty to sexting girl, 17

He sexted while on White House duty

A girl from South Florida recalled in detail for federal agents how she was lured into sexting with a Secret Service officer who worked at the White House, newly released court records show.

It was December 2015, when special agents with Homeland Security Investigations contacted the 17-year-old to ask about the sex-oriented messages and photos.

Officer Lee Robert Moore, whose username was “Rob,” had used cellphone apps, such as Kik and Meet24, to communicate with the girl in 2014, even though her social accounts indicated she was 16 at the time.

Moore — who was fired after investigators said he sexted with underage girls while on duty at the White House — pleaded guilty Wednesday to trying to lure the Broward County girl into sexual activity.

Moore, 38, also pleaded guilty to enticement of a minor and attempted transportation of obscene material to a minor.

He said little in court Wednesday, but told Senior U.S. District Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley he understood the implications of pleading guilty to the charges, including ending his career in law enforcement and facing a maximum punishment of life in prison.

Moore, who was married with children and lived in Maryland before his arrest, came to investigators’ attention in 2015 when he began communicating with at least two undercover officers posing as underage girls, records show.

Federal prosecutors said Moore, whose duties included guarding the White House, frequently engaged in online sex chats while he was supposed to be working. Records show his job-related remarks to undercover officers included: “work sucks today,” “[sitting] at box office style booth checking ID’s for entrance into building,”

wearing “black tactical pants, a long sleeve polo and my vest.”

When authorities questioned him, Moore estimated he was talking to about 10 individuals he believed were underage girls, investigators said.

Investigators later found “hundreds and hundreds” of sexually explicit conversations he had with underage girls, police officers who posed as minors and adult women.

Moore had sent the Broward girl “numerous” photographs of his genitals, as well as other non-explicit photographs of himself, prosecutors said. He persuaded the girl to send him naked photographs of herself, they said.

In 2014, about the same time he was communicating with the Broward girl, Moore was sexting with at least two other girls, ages 14 and 17, who live elsewhere in the country, federal court documents released Wednesday show.

During their exchanges, Moore told those two girls he was a “federal officer in DC,” the documents show.

On Feb. 12, 2014, Moore told the 14-year-old girl he was “a cop’’ and a “federal officer to be specific,” according to the court records.

The girl told him he was “talking to a child,’’ to which Moore replied, “Like the Rolling Stones sang, ‘every cop is a criminal,’” records show.

Moore destroyed digital evidence of his misconduct after he found out he was under investigation and was about to be arrested, according to federal prosecutors and agents from Homeland Security Investigations.

He learned of the investigation when officials from the Secret Service went to his home and told him he was being suspended, in violation of how prosecutors and investigators had asked the Secret Service to handle the matter, according to court documents.

Moore has been locked up since he was arrested in November 2015 on a related federal charge in Delaware.

Shortly after the allegations were made public, he was fired from his job as a sworn officer and member of the Secret Service’s uniformed security detail at the White House complex.

He was initially locked up in Delaware but chose to be transferred to South Florida in September to face the most serious charges against him.