I don’t think you can talk yourself out of having had sex with an underage child.
This is a set-up so old that Hunter Thompson details it in one of his Fear and Loathing books as a standard political practice.
Whenever you hear of accusations like this, a political hit should be your first impression unless the facts overwhelmingly prove otherwise.
Yes, a terrible situation made worse by running. This likely wasn’t her first time, how many others now subject to same prosecution? She lied, maybe extorted the money? Did she look 17? Act 17? Say she was 17? From legal perspective as that is age in Texas. And for the website, she claimed to be 18 to join and post. Maybe he was gullible to believe but who asks to see driver’s license or birth certificate?
You can damned sure try if she represented herself as an adult
That sugar daddy site should have data detailing what she claimed her age was