Hephzibah teen arrested after allegedly recording video of sex with 13-year-old girl

Jozsef Papp
Augusta Chronicle

A Hephzibah teen was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly had sex with a minor and recorded the act.

Javier Ballard, 17, was charged with sexual exploitation of a minor and statutory rape. According to arrest warrants, Ballard had sex with a 13-year-old girl at a home in Hephzibah.

According to the arrest warrants, Ballard enticed the girl into having sex for the purpose of producing a video on the victim's cellphone.

The age of consent in Georgia is 16.

Ballard is being held at the Charles B. Webster Detention Center.