A Clarkston man, who allegedly goes by ‘handsome Rob’ and was previously arrested in a child sex and human trafficking sting operation out of Genesee County, is now accused of distribution of child pornography and receipt and possession of child pornography.
A Homeland Security Investigations special agent based in Detroit said Robert Rhodes Bailey, 37, stated that, “if all law enforcement had was the one video, that he was not worried.”
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Bailey was arrested back in 2019 by a Michigan task force along with 11 others during a sting operation. The Genesee County Sheriff’s Office G.H.O.S.T. task force announced the arrest of “The Dirty Dozen 2.”
‘What’s the youngest you had?’
The feds said they had been running undercover chats on the mobile messaging app Kik as part of a child exploitation investigation. An HSI agent working undercover began posing as the father of an eight-year-old girl. The undercover agent said they spent time in Kik rooms “devoted to” the exchange of child sexually abusive material or “the discussion of the sexual abuse of children.”
Then, the feds said, on May 23, 2026, a Kik user with the name “sinfullyhung” reached out privately.
“Hey into same looking for some,” the message began, the feds said.
By May 24: “What’s the youngest you had?”
And by May 26, the conversation allegedly escalated, with the undercover agent and the user discussing ages, locations, and meeting up. The Kik user said he was in Michigan and asked where the undercover agent was.
The undercover agent responded: “Oh nice Michigan here too” and “Pontiac.”
The Kik user allegedly answered: “Oh that’s not far at all I’m just north in Clarkston” and soon asked: “Would you like to meet up and chat sometime?”
The chat continued over multiple messages, growing more explicit and more focused on sexual abuse, according to the complaint. At one point the Kik user allegedly said: “Man I would love to see what you have…”
“Vid for vid?”
The feds said May 27, 2026, the Kik user told the undercover agent: “So I found a video, but I would like to see one of yours first.”
The undercover agent asked what kind of video it was.
“Vid of her (explicit) and I would nvr. The mean reason I would to meet. Hate sending,” the Kik user replied, court records show.
The undercover agent said they then sent what they described as “an age regressed, gender swapped image of himself.”
The Kik user then sent a still image of a video “depicting what appears to be a nude minor child,” according to court records.
The undercover agent said they pressed again, and the Kik user asked: “Vid for vid?”
When the undercover agent insisted the other person go first, the feds said the Kik user sent a five second video that “appears to depict a nude female child” engaging in a sexual act.
“Let’s see your video,” the Kik user allegedly wrote afterward.
Tracking the username to a Michigan address
The feds said on June 5, 2026, they tied the account “sinfullyhung” from Kik to an email and later, an IP address. The feds said Comcast provided a subscriber name and address tied to Robert Bailey at a home on Bart Ave in Davisburg, Michigan.
On June 22, 2026, the HSI Agent submitted the video to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to see whether it had been previously encountered.
The feds said NCMEC said the file was compared against its Child Recognition & Identification System (CRIS) and that “there was a file that appears to contain a child victim who has been identified by law enforcement.”
The 2019 case comes back
After reviewing reports and Kik chats from the Genessee County Sheriff’s Office involving the undercover sting operation in 2019, the feds said they immediately noticed something similar.
In that case, a sheriff’s deputy was posing as a 15-year-old female and received messages from a user with the username “rhodes2026” and the vanity name “handsome rob.”
According to the complaint, “handsome rob” wrote that he bought beer and said, “I’ll let u r**e me.” The user was allegedly given a hotel address and arrived to meet the “child,” the feds said, and was identified as Robert Rhodes Bailey and arrested.
Bailey allegedly later admitted he was talking to a girl who said she was 15, admitted the chat included sex talk, and admitted he set up a meeting intending “to talk and have sex.” The feds said he brought an 18 pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer as requested “in exchange for sex or sexual acts.”
Records show Bailey pleaded guilty to Using a computer to Commit a Crime and received 60 months’ probation. He was discharged, according to court records, in December 2024.
Search warrants and interview: ‘That was me’
On July 1, 2026, HSI agents said they searched Bailey’s home on Bart Ave, then interviewed him. Bailey allegedly said he initially wanted an attorney, but then said he was willing to answer questions without a lawyer.
According to the feds, Bailey initially denied recently using Kik, and when shown a screenshot of the username “sinfullyhung” and the profile picture, Bailey denied recognizing it. Later, the complaint said, Bailey said the account did belong to him and recognized the screenshot, saying: “that was me.”
Bailey allegedly claimed his conversations were “fantasy” and denied hands-on offenses against children. He also said Kik was no longer on his phone because he got a new phone and “I knew what I did was wrong,” according to the complaint, though he added Kik “might or might not be installed” on an old phone.
Bailey allegedly said he received the sexually abusive video from Telegram and then forwarded it, adding that he had “no clue” how old the child was.
The feds said Bailey described his “fantasy conversations” as involving “almost adult” material, and when pressed, defined that as minors who were “18, 17, 16.” Bailey allegedly denied talking to children under 18 on Kik.
When asked how much child sexually abusive material he had seen on Kik, Bailey allegedly said “none,” but when told he had “sent some,” he allegedly responded: “that was from Telegram and I literally just transferred it over.”
The feds said Bailey told them the only child sexually abusive material law enforcement would find on his phones was the video previously sent.
‘If all law enforcement had was the one video…'
In a second interview with another HSI agent, the feds said Bailey admitted to sending a video of a minor female engaged in a sex act that had previously been sent to him.
He allegedly said the conversation happened over a “two-to-three-day span” and that he was aware it was about child pornography.
“Bailey stated that, if all law enforcement had was the one video, that he was not worried,” the feds said.
Federal court records show Bailey was temporarily detained pending trial.