According to police, the charge stems from Sparks befriending a 15-year-old male and ultimately taking the teen to a store where he encouraged him to pick out a pornographic magazine. Police say Sparks told the teen he would buy the magazine for him so he could "have a good time."
The teens sibling attends Albert Einstein Academy and met Sparks while picking up his sibling. Sparks developed a friendship over time, taking the teen out to restaurants, he bought the teen a computer and according to police their online contact became sexual in nature. Eventually Sparks took the teen to a store and encouraged him to enter a room marked with a sign prohibiting minors, where he was to pick out a magazine. The teen refused and told his parents what happened.
Sparks was arraigned and released on $2,000 unsecured bond.