A registered sex offender paroled in November 2024 was arrested Wednesday on a new charge for again seeking to have sex with an undercover deputy posing online as a 15-year-old girl and sending her lewd photos of himself, Harris County Precinct One Constable Alan Rosen said.
Christopher Joseph Lakner, 33, of Channelview, was arrested by Constable Precinct One’s Internet Crimes Against Children Unit.
“We are never going to stop doing all we can to stop sexual predators.” Rosen said. “We are not going to let you prey on anyone, especially children.”
Lakner faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of the felony offense of online solicitation of a minor.
He also faces revocation of his parole.
Lakner was sentenced in 2021 in Harris County to five years in prison after pleading guilty to online solicitation of a minor in a case in which he was accused of asking a deputy – who was undercover posing as a teenager – to help him kidnap children so they could be sold as sex slaves. Lakner sent photos of himself naked and attempted to meet with her in person for sex. Lakner also told the undercover deputy he wanted to impregnate her to create children and raise them to also be sex slaves, court records state.
In a related case in Montgomery County, he was convicted of promotion of child pornography and sentenced to 10 years of probation for sending images to an undercover officer.
Deputies are asking anyone who has information on Lakner’s involvement with minors to call the Internet Crimes Against Children Unit at 713-222-4929.
The arrest marks the second time in less than three months that Harris County Precinct One deputies have arrested a recently paroled sex offender on charges of seeking to have sex with minors.
In March, deputies arrested David Lee Sims, 46, for online solicitation of a minor. Sims had condoms and Skittles candy when he was arrested in Houston while going to meet the minor, who was actually an undercover deputy, court records state.
Sims had been previously convicted of seeking sex with a 12-year-old in Montgomery County. He’d been released from prison approximately 90 days prior to his arrest by Precinct One deputies.
Constable Rosen urged parents to monitor their children’s online activity.
“Children can be sitting in their own living room and fall into the clutches of an online predator who is miles away,” Rosen said. “We look to their adult family members to help protect them from this kind of abuse.”