Overview
- A Broward County judge found probable cause for obscene online communication to lure a child and for transmitting material harmful to a minor.
- Bond was set at $250,000 per count with GPS monitoring, no contact with minors or former South Plantation High students, no entry to K–12 campuses, and no internet or social media use.
- Erskin, 39, was arrested in Seminole County on a Plantation Police warrant, extradited to Broward County, and remains jailed; Lake County Schools dismissed him from a new Mount Dora High coaching post, and Broward County Public Schools say his prior employment ended in August 2024.
- Prosecutors described a suspected pattern and cited references to driving to pick up the teen for a football game and repeated FaceTime attempts the girl declined.
- The alleged victim’s father says Erskin groomed his 15-year-old daughter and sent her a naked photo.