Please let me see your ass. GET ON THE
GROUND. GET ON THE GROUND RIGHT NOW. ON
THE GROUND. GET ON THE GROUND. GET ON
THE GROUND.
>> Do you have any weapons on you, sir?
>> I'm an outstanding human being up to
this moment in my time of making a
foolish.
>> On October 9th, 2024, an undercover
sting operation busted a middle school
teacher in Albuquerque. Law enforcement
officers posing as the father of a girl
much less than the age of an adult had
very explicit chats with the teacher.
The teacher was later identified as
Steven Phillips. Phillips showed up to
the house and instead of meeting the
father's daughter, ran straight into the
arms of law enforcement.
>> Please let me SEE YOUR ASS. GET ON THE
GROUND. GET ON THE GROUND RIGHT NOW. ON
THE GROUND. GO ON THE GROUND.
>> GO ON THE GROUND.
>> Go in your stomach. Go on.
>> Throw on your stomach.
>> Stop resisting.
>> Stop resisting.
>> YOU'RE GOING TO GET TASED.
>> You're going to GET TAS AND YOU'LL STOP.
GIVE ME A HAND.
>> I got one hand.
Good. You got
>> All right.
We're good, guys. Do
>> you have any weapons on you, sir?
>> No.
>> You have the right to remain silent.
Okay. Can I get a Can I get a yes or no?
Yes, sir. Okay. And having these rights
in mind, do you wish to talk with us?
>> After reading Phillips's rights, he
agreed to talk to the officer.
>> I'm just a very honest and open man.
Whatever. Again, I think talking to a
lawyer would be my best bet. Um,
>> would you like to talk to a lawyer
before you talk to us?
>> I mean, I I got
I got really nothing to hide at this
point. Like I said, you know, you're
looking at a man who's
>> Okay.
>> All right. Ask some questions.
Gentlemen, you're looking at a man who
just lost his life,
>> right? You're looking at a man who just
worked at his career for a long time.
And I'm so torn
when somebody just messages me, hey, you
want to come? And I'm like, what the is
this? This cannot be true. It cannot be.
And then you just want like you almost
want to witness to see if it's out
there, right?
One, this is not me. This is not my
character. But apparently it is because
I'm here.
That right here is this is something I'm
going to have to live with for the rest
of my life. And uh in this pain and
torment that I I put myself through
right now. And all the times just of of
driving over here like what the are you
doing? This is just ridiculous. What?
This is not who you are or what you are
what you're about. And
and so
I just want I just want uh a lawyer. I
want somebody to to be able to help me
through this process. Um
uh
the easiest way possible, right? Or are
or that's where it's at. I have
[clears throat]
hundreds of parents who who look up to
me,
right? And and I don't I don't I don't
ever I've never in a million years even
have
h have have made a move or I've have
done anything on on on
any girls. That's that's that's I know
that for a fact.
I'm I'm a genuine professional. And then
this curiosity got the best of me. Um,
even knowing when I'm driving over here
like you your gut like dude, it's not
even and it has nothing to do with
probably getting caught. Has to do with
like
>> like what what is anyway? It doesn't
matter, gentlemen. I uh [snorts]
I'm just I'm just completely embarrassed
and completely
uh
I said I I I just lost my life, you
know. I just lost it. And uh and so now
uh to hit rock bottom when you're
already just uh
just struggle. Anyway, you guys don't
need to hear this story. So he reached
up to you and asked that was like that
was the first message like hey I saw
your account you want to my daughter or
was was there some back and forth?
>> Um
yeah just a little bit of back and
forth.
>> Okay.
>> Right. I was just I was like I mean
again you don't you don't get somebody
saying you want to my daughter. Right.
First response would be like what the up
dude just like what are you right then
you're like
so I was just just curious what you had
but you I don't even really know the
conversation just back and forth of is
this real or you
who you say you are is this you know it
it's
I'm sure you guys know the conversation
you
>> I haven't seen it.
>> No. Well,
it's very simple and straightforward, I
guess.
>> Like I'm giving I'm giving you first
crack at it. I haven't seen it yet. So,
the first story I hear is yours.
>> Yeah. Yeah. And and again, it's it was
probably 2 hours or 3 hours of
conversation
of
And then uh
yeah, he reached out to me, asked if I
wanted to have sex with his daughter. I
was like, at first there was no age and
then he said the age and he said 12. I
was like, what the right?
And so you you must have expressed
interest, right? Cuz that's why you're
here.
>> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Of course.
Uh
>> so you must have said yes.
>> Would I would that be would that be fair
to say?
>> Well, yeah. I'm here, right? Yeah. So,
so that's that's an obvious
thing, right? I wasn't coerced to being
here. I wasn't uh
um bribed to come here
um
after [snorts] me like, "No, no, I don't
want to come." Yeah. It's like this
makes no sense. I stayed in my car for a
long time and then Yeah. Um
Okay.
So, did
you offer anything? Money?
>> This?
>> No. I said I said I said, "Do I need to
bring anything?" He said, "Bring a toy."
>> Bring a toy.
>> I was like, "All right, I'll bring I'll
bring a toy."
>> Did you already had this or was this
this new?
>> Yeah, I already I had that. That's uh
So this this was something you already
had at your house.
>> Yes, sir.
>> Okay. And what what was kind of the the
arrangement that you two made?
>> There was no arrangement.
>> There's no arrangement?
>> No, I just like what what do you want me
to do? It's just like
>> um
>> yeah, there's no arrangement.
>> Okay.
>> It's just come over.
>> What What did What did you say that you
wanted to do to his daughter?
>> I didn't I didn't say what I wanted to
do. I just asked him what what what do
you want done? What is your like that
was my first thing is like what what are
you into this for? like
okay but it'd be safe to say that you
brought this for her
>> for him. He asked He asked to bring a
toy.
>> Okay.
>> All right.
>> But you aren't going to use this on him,
right?
>> That was that that wasn't part of the
range.
I don't know.
>> You don't know?
>> Okay. So, like I told you, you got first
crack at this, right? I haven't seen the
chats, but I will. So, I I'll see I'll
see the answers to these questions. You
just had the opportunity to tell me
first and I can say Stephen was very
forthcoming and very honest with me.
He's a guy who made a mistake tonight,
right? Not a guy who has done this a
thousand other times.
Would that be right? That is that is uh
100% correct.
>> Okay. So, I'm giving you the opportunity
to tell me what I'm going to find when I
look at them cuz like I said, you're the
first you get you get the first story
here. You're you got the first mover
advantage.
>> That's
it's very simple as that. You know, come
with my daughter. I don't know what is
this about. I
again
curiosity.
>> Okay.
>> And then uh
yeah,
but we can both agree that you were here
to have his daughter. Is that right?
>> No.
>> No. Okay. What were you What were you
doing here?
Um,
I don't really I don't really know,
right? Like I I already know me. I I I
probably would have seen the situation
and just been like, "What the you want
to say for me?" You guys enjoy your
life, right? Just to see that it's real
and that it's happening and that it's
that it's there, right? And then
uh
you know that's that's that's kind of
like what I'm looking at like
Yeah.
Okay. Cuz that's a
that's that's how I see it. Like I
wasn't
I wasn't like yeah I'm going to come
have with this girl. I was like
what the is all this? Like you wanted to
see is the girl happy? Is is this what
she wants? Is this what she like how is
the situation even possible?
You know and and then
and then so
you're asked to come to somebody's
house, bring a toy. And I was like, "All
right, here's here's a toy." But um it's
it's
like I said, yeah, that's
just more inquisitive about like what
the is going through a mind like that.
sit down next to it, [clears throat]
talk to it, look at like,
and then you have you have ultimate
perspective in that way, right? Like,
and it's it's it's a it's I'm not
justifying anything that I did at all,
but my intention wasn't to come over
here and have with with with a girl, a
young girl.
It was to see the situation,
right? And
>> so you were concerned for her, the girl.
>> Uh yeah. Yeah. Uh
is that like I I I was I
is this what she wants is is one of the
questions. Is this is she does this make
her happy? Like is this what she is? How
does this happen? Right. And one it just
happens cuz it's a made story. You just
believed it, right? That's all it is.
It's just so
>> Well, it does happen. But you thought,
"Hey, I'll go to this strange man's
house at 9:00 at night
>> instead of calling the cops."
>> Yeah. Right. That's
>> Do you do you see why that that line
that line of reasoning doesn't track for
me? Right. So, we were doing really
good. You're being super honest with me,
>> but all I wanted to go check on her, so
I went to a strange man's house alone.
And that doesn't that I I can't buy
that. I wasn't say I was coming to
protect. I was coming to see the
situation, right? It wasn't to protect
anybody, to see if anybody needs saving.
It was to come check out a situation,
see what it's about. At a certain point,
you could even I was like, "Dude, why
are you throwing yourself out there? You
don't know what type of person I am. I
have like if you see abuse, you see
abandonment, you see neglect, right?"
And and and yeah, that was definitely a
thought of my mind is just just turn
this in. What if it's
>> Yeah. All right. Um, where do you work?
>> I work at uh CN Arbus International
School.
>> Okay. What's your job there?
>> I am the uh K through8 PE coach.
>> As far as toys, like what is what does
that mean to you?
>> What is that? That's I We haven't opened
the box so I don't What is that to you?
[sighs]
Is it a vibrator? Looks like a vibrator
to me or is it something else?
>> Gentlemen, it says on the box and and
it's it's in the box. You can open up
the box. You can look at the box. I
don't know what you want me to explain.
It's it's it's a toy that vibrates and
has 10 different modes. It's water
resistant. has a little flip and flap in
there that'll go against right that that
works to get a girl squirt. Like it's
it's it's it's
a toy. It's a toy with multiple
functions.
>> What else do you want me to explain
about?
>> No, I I appreciate that. That helps
clarify. So, were you going to use it on
yourself?
>> No. The very last thing I said, hey, I
get this. I understand that. All right.
But no, that was not the dad said, "Hey,
whoever the that was doesn't again, none
of this matters. This is a nightmare."
>> So you're saying someone messaged you
about
>> Yeah. Yeah. So he's like, "Hey, what do
you need me to bring?
>> Bring a toy."
>> And was there like what was your your
purpose in bringing that toy besides
him? I know he said or she said or
whoever said bring a boy. What was
>> it's like when you come to somebody's
house, bring a gift. It's a gift. It's
what you want. What do you want when I'm
coming over to your house?
>> But who was your gift for?
>> For him who asked for it. He asked for
the gift.
>> Okay. Did he say what he's going to do
with the gift?
>> No.
>> No. Okay. Can you help me understand the
intention when you say what the I don't
understand that intention.
>> Yeah. Also, me neither.
>> Okay.
>> Right. like like I'm I'm I'm coming from
a a very
>> So, was your intention, Stephen, to have
with this with this girl?
>> No. No,
>> Stephen.
>> No, no, it was not my intention. Uh
>> Stephen, you're a very educated man.
>> I know. I'm very
>> You're a very educated man. You You're
This is, you know, as far as conversing
with people, this is not first time
you've had a serious conversation with
people, right? So, all this although the
situation may seem unique, it really
isn't. It's just a conversation that
we're having.
>> Yeah.
>> And we're just trying to understand
what's going on.
>> And
>> you know to to us, right? You you have
kids come to you every single you have
kids come to you every single day that
come up with some probably BS excuses
about missing class, having bad grades,
and then you're coming to us, right? And
you're you're bringing a vibrator.
You're coming to a house with a with a
12-year-old girl, right? You're coming
to a a place and you're saying you're
just came here to see and observe. How
do you think that?
>> Of course.
>> So what that's why we just we want we
want a straightforward answer, man. Like
what was your what was your intention to
come here? What were you what were you
doing here?
>> I don't know.
>> You just showed up.
>> I don't believe that, Stephen. And you
know you don't in your hard parts. You
don't believe that.
I I know who I am and what I am and how
I do things.
>> Okay. The past doesn't here right now.
Why Why'd you call it?
>> I told you inquisitive. It was you you
you're talking to somebody. It wasn't.
It's just like
I tell you I'm going to have walked in
this situation and been like what the
>> I
think what Luke's trying to say is that
nobody believes that you met somebody
online, agreed to have a 12-year-old
girl, came over at the house, brought
her a vibrator, and you were only there
to check it out. You know what I'm
saying? It's the same. We we're getting
that same feeling that you get when your
students are just blowing a bunch of
smoke up your
So just be honest with us, man.
I'm being honest. You hear that
12-year-old girl thing? No, I wasn't.
That that wasn't
so
>> what was going on in my head.
>> So you agreed to have to open a lot of
chat. You drove to a house. You brought
a vibrator but you didn't you weren't
really you you in your head you w you
were a lot you no part of you thought
you might have with this girl.
How did it make you feel?
>> Nervous, excited, both.
Um, [clears throat]
nervous, sick to my stomach,
my heart in my throat.
>> Kind of exciting.
Well,
you can you can interpret excitement
from.
>> So that that right there just got
excited. I was telling you it was it was
more more of a frightening feeling than
anything else.
>> Let let me let me ask you this.
Did you come here cuz you wanted to have
with the 12-year-old girl or did you
come here cuz you want to just have a
girl?
Any girl. If she'd been 19.
What that
I
I have with a lot of girls and a lot of
of age girls. I have a lot of women that
I see, right?
Yeah. So, it's
not really all that
everything's about, right? Like it's
This is not easy to explain. Like you
>> we're here, Stephen. We we we're here to
hear your story.
>> I know who you're here to hear your
story. But
>> but also, you got to understand,
gentlemen. This is this is completely
embarrassing. It's completely
embarrassing to to just even to think
that I just cuz I already knew. I
already knew to stay home. I already
knew like what the is this? Already knew
it. Already knew it.
>> What? Already knew it. What helped you
know that?
What's that?
>> What helps you know that you should
stay?
>> Well, because of the situation like
no person in the right mind will
will present you know what I mean like
without any background like without
anything. It's just like what?
Oh, you've met people on that life that
the turnarounds are that fast now.
>> That what?
>> The turnaround's fast. You meet somebody
few hours later you go, you hook up, you
never see them again.
>> Like that's how internet
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. Yeah. But
>> so it's not that it's not that out of
the like it's not out that that out
there, right?
>> Uh to to to come have with my 12year-old
daughter. um
right
that that that is not out there that is
not anything that uh has ever been
presented to me or told to me or man. So
once it was told to me is this what
right again you you can you can look
into my life and you can look at
everything that been doing for the past
20 years and and and and
nothing dealing with illegal or underage
girls.
This is like I it it's so when it
happens now at 51 and you're like what
the how how do I how do I
how do I go into my head and say that
yeah that's what you wanted cuz that's
not what I wanted
that that's that's that's 100% sure it's
not what I
want cuz if it's it's not that anything
that I desire but what happens is once
it's said, "You like, oh,
>> were you curious once they once he
offered the girl?"
>> No. that that you're curious of
what curious of the situation, what
everybody looks like, what everybody
feels like, what everybody like, you
know, your energy like again and
you know, I'm 100% wrong for being Yeah.
And it's as simple as that.
>> So you are you are under arrest, right?
You understand that?
>> Yes, sir.
>> Okay. Yes. So you'll get transport
ported down. Um the officers will have
your charges. Um and they tend to make
pod determinations based on your safety
and security.
Does that make sense?
Have you ever been?
>> So, I'm at the discretion of somebody,
right? Yeah. You know, that's what you
just said. I'm at the discretion of
somebody who's like, "Oh, I want to put
you in that pond or that pond, depending
on what
>> it's a system, right? It's a major
system.
>> I'm at the control of the system."
>> Have you ever been booked before?
>> Yes.
>> Okay. For what?
>> Uh,
what was it for? It was um failure to
pay a ticket and then I had a warrant
out for my request.
>> Okay. Sounds good. So, doesn't sound
like something so crazy, right? You're
not aender or anything like that?
>> No. Okay. Or you're not Have you ever
assaulted a peace officer or anything
like that?
>> It doesn't sound like it. I gentlemen I
am I'm an outstanding human being up to
this moment in my time of making a
foolish
just to even just come over here to
check it out just to even just to h even
give somebody two cents of a
conversation.
I should just read my book. I didn't
need to be on a fed life.
>> Steven Phillips was arrested and charged
with two felonies. He plead guilty to
one felony and received the following
sentence. 400 days in jail and given
credit for the 400 days he had already
served. Supervised probation for 3
years. Relinquish teaching certification
because Steven Phillips plead guilty to
a nonoffense felony. He was not required
to register as a offender. In the
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