A 24-year-old trans-identified male in Wisconsin has been sentenced to 1 year in county jail for child trafficking after being found with child sexual abuse material twice. Clayton William Solberg, also known as “Sofie Solberg” and “Sofie Fordo,” was granted 43 days credit for time served.
Solberg was first apprehended by Trempealeau County deputies on December 27, 2023, after the Sheriff’s office received a cyber-tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). He was charged with two counts of possession of child pornography, and was booked in the Trempealeau County jail. On January 3 of 2024, he was released on a $2,500 cash bond. Among the conditions of his bond was for Solberg not to have contact with minors or vulnerable adults, which the court noted included “those where defendant was previously residing.”
Solberg was also prohibited from accessing the internet and having any devices which could connect to the internet.
But not long after being released from jail pending trial, the NCMEC became aware of a Dropbox baring Solberg’s “feminine” name which was transferring child sexual abuse material.
A search warrant was executed on Solberg’s Google Photos account which found several more videos and images of child sexual abuse. The images reportedly included some which depicted the sexual abuse of four- and five-year olds, and at least one which involved an infant.
On May 7, 2024, Trempealeau County deputies raided Solberg’s Onalaska home and found three devices capable of connecting the internet – all of which were prohibited under the conditions of Solberg’s previous bond.
He was arrested once again and charged with 5 felony counts of child pornography possession, and two counts related to bail violations.
The court set a $20,000 cash bond with conditions again prohibiting internet access and contact with minors. Court record summaries show that Solberg was able to post the bond the next month, and was released once again pending trial.
Solberg pleaded not guilty to the child pornography charges filed earlier in 2024 but entered a no contest plea to a single count of child trafficking. Under Wisconsin law, child trafficking is not limited to physical movement of a child. The statute is written very broadly and can include digital conduct, not just in-person acts. Prosecutors in the state may use the trafficking statute when they believe a defendant actively obtained, solicited, or facilitated the exploitation of a child, rather than merely possessing illegal images.
As part of this apparent plea agreement, all remaining charges — including multiple counts of child pornography possession and felony bail jumping — were dismissed.
Although those charges did not result in separate convictions, they were dismissed “but read in,” meaning the prosecution agreed not to pursue them further while the court was permitted to consider the underlying conduct when determining Solberg’s sentence on the trafficking conviction.
On December 5, the judge chose to withhold Solberg’s sentence and placed him on six years of probation rather than imposing a state prison term. As a condition of this probation, Solberg was ordered to spend one year in Trempealeau County Jail, with credit for 43 days already served, leaving 322 days remaining. After completing the jail portion of his sentence, Solberg is to begin probation supervision in the community.
Upon release, Solberg will be subject to numerous conditions commonly imposed in sex-offense cases. These include restrictions on contact with minors unless specifically approved and supervised, prohibitions on social media and communication applications, and a ban on internet use except for limited, approved purposes such as employment, medical care, or treatment. Court records indicate that if Solberg violates the terms of his probation, the court retains the authority to impose a prison sentence.
As previously reported by Reduxx, Solberg had a lengthy and prolific social media presence which went dark just days before his arrest in December of 2023.
On Reddit and Instagram, he went by the name Sofie Fordo, which was the same handle associated with the Dropbox where his stash of child sexual abuse material was found. That name has since been registered into the court system as one of his aliases.
Calling himself “Slutty Step Sister,” Solberg primarily posted memes to various Reddit communities, including ones dedicated to LGBT issues, transgender gamers, and self-identified lesbians. One of his most frequented boards required all users to align with the ideology of anti-fascism, “All Cops Are Bastards,” and Black Lives Matter.
Solberg also posted multiple lewd photos of his micropenis and male breast tissue to various pornographic communities, including r/dykesgonewild, r/FtMsex, r/FtMsPunished, r/SmallPenisHumiliation, and r/19_sex.
He maintained an OnlyFans where he re-posted much of the same content to a small handful of subscribers who were paying $4.99 per month.
Solberg’s Instagram presence featured a similar theme as his Reddit account, with hundreds of memes and short videos being posted, most of which utilized female characters drawn in the style of Japanese animation with captions related to transgenderism, sex, or video games. In his bio, he claimed to have been using “DIY HRT,” referring to homemade or unprescribed estrogen obtained through illicit sources.
Some of Solberg’s content was explicitly political and called for violence against Republicans and police officers.
One 2018 post featured a photo of a man wearing an Antifa-logo shirt punching a bruised woman in the face. The photo was captioned “53% of white women voted for a fascist. #punchwhitewomen,” an apparent reference to the percent of white American females who voted for Donald Trump in the last election. Solberg repeated the hashtag in the photo in his own caption.
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