A 43-year-old Galveston woman is behind bars accused of trying to sell a 12-year-old child for sex, after a tip to a national child-safety hotline pointed investigators to her home on Avenue R ½. Liss Milton was arrested and now faces a $150,000 bond on a charge of possessing visual material depicting the sexual assault of a child.
The case began when the Galveston County Sheriff's Office received a cyber-tip from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, according to the sheriff's office. As reported by Click2Houston, the tip indicated Milton had allegedly solicited the sale of a 12-year-old child for sex and had shared a video showing a child engaged in sexual activity.
Investigators executed a search warrant at a home in the 5200 block of Avenue R ½ in Galveston on October 9, seizing multiple electronic devices for forensic examination before arresting Milton, per the same report. Those devices are expected to undergo digital analysis as part of the ongoing investigation.
A Pattern of Cyber-Tips Driving Local Arrests
Milton's arrest follows a familiar pipeline in Galveston County, where tips generated through NCMEC's CyberTipline increasingly convert into local search warrants and felony charges. Just eight days before Milton's arrest, the Galveston County Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Unit and the Houston Metro Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force executed a search warrant in League City stemming from a separate NCMEC cyber-tip, leading to three felony arrests and the seizure of 15 guns and pounds of drugs, according to KGTX 7. Hoodline previously reported on that League City bust.
A year earlier, in October 2025, Galveston County Sheriff's Office detectives executed a search warrant in Dickinson after another NCMEC cyber-tip, arresting 50-year-old registered sex offender David Eric Skog for possessing visual material depicting child sexual assault and for failing to register, according to KGTX 7's earlier reporting. NCMEC's CyberTipline received 21.3 million reports nationwide in 2025, per MissingKids.org.
Reports of Child Sex Trafficking Surged Nationwide
Reports of child sex trafficking submitted to the CyberTipline reached 113,530 in 2025, a 323% increase over 2024, MissingKids.org reports. That surge has coincided with a string of local Galveston County cases involving child sexual abuse material in recent months.
In June, a federal jury in Galveston convicted 45-year-old Clear Lake Shores resident Michael Harkless of possessing child sexual abuse material after Homeland Security Investigations and local law enforcement executed a digital search warrant, as Hoodline previously reported in its coverage of the Clear Lake Shores conviction. In August, federal authorities arrested Qatari match promoter Ali Homoud Alnaimi in Galveston as his cruise ship returned to port, charging him with transporting child sexual abuse material found on his mobile devices, according to Hoodline's report on the Galveston cruise bust.
What Milton Could Face if Convicted
Milton faces a first-degree felony charge of possessing visual material depicting the sexual assault of a child.
Milton is also accused of soliciting the sale of a child for sex.
It remains unclear whether federal prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas will adopt Milton's case under Project Safe Childhood, as has occurred in other recent Galveston-area digital exploitation investigations. The forensic examination of the seized electronic devices is ongoing.
