SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio man who used to serve as the president of the Texas Counseling Association has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for sexually exploiting children.
Adrian Scott Warren, 47, is also a former licensed counselor. In 2022, Warren sent a private message on a dating app to an FBI-controlled undercover profile, according to court documents.
Warren said he was interested in "young" and had engaged in sexual contact with a victim since he was seven years old. Warren informed the undercover agent that he wanted to meet up to engage in sexual activity and to watch child porn. He offered to bring the aforementioned victim with him.
On Aug. 4, 2022, Warren went to a hotel where he agreed to meet what he thought was a nine-year-old child. Instead, he was met by FBI agents who took his cell phone.
The next day, Warren identified the child victim he had been exploiting. He admitted that he had sexually assaulted the boy and that he possessed child porn showing children between the ages of zero and 17 years old.
Warren was arrested and indicted for one count of sexual exploitation of a child and one count of possession of child porn on Aug. 4, 2022. He plead guilty on Nov. 14, 2023. He has now been sentenced to 28 years in federal prison.
After his time behind bars, he will serve a lifetime of supervised release.
He also has been ordered to pay $140,840 to the victim and $100,000 to 20 other victims whose images he had.
