Judge sends 'Money Mike' to jail for 180 days

Michael McIntosh, shown in court Tuesday, is accused of paying underage girls to have sex and of creating his own private prostitution ring. Michael McIntosh, shown in court Tuesday, is accused of paying underage girls to have sex and of creating his own private prostitution ring. Photo: Jennifer Reynolds, MBR Photo: Jennifer Reynolds, MBR Image 1 of / 8 Caption Close Judge sends 'Money Mike' to jail for 180 days 1 / 8 Back to Gallery

GALVESTON - A man nicknamed "Money Mike" by his accusers will serve 180 days in jail as part of a 10-year probation sentence for sexual assault on a child, a judge said Wednesday.

State District Judge Lonnie Cox imposed the jail sentence on 63-year-old Michael Wayne McIntosh as one of numerous conditions of probation for the June 2013 assault involving a teenage girl.

The prospect of prison still looms. Prosecutors could decide to try him on one or more of three other indictments - one for inducing a child to have sex and two for sexual assault on a child.

McIntosh was convicted and sentenced by a jury Tuesday following a four-day trial in which he was accused of handing out wads of cash to lure an undetermined number of teens to his Friendswood house. Eight girls, most of them younger than 17 when they met McIntosh, testified against him during the trial.

McIntosh is required to register with local police as a sex offender and immediately seek counseling. He will be unable to use any computer, cellphone or other electronic device with access to the Internet. Other requirements on a long list include reporting to a probation officer every month and prohibiting his presence with anyone younger than 18 unless an approved chaperone is present. An exception will be a young daughter from a former marriage. McIntosh, who lives alone, also has an adult daughter.

Galveston County Assistant District Attorney Adam Poole said it could take as long as several weeks to decide whether to try McIntosh on the other indictments. Parents of the girls who testified were reluctant to allow them to be witnesses, in which they were forced to discuss sexual acts in front of a jury and a courtroom of spectators. One girl was on the witness stand for two days as the defense grilled her on every aspect of her relationship with McIntosh in an attempt to discredit her.

Poole said only a single charge was prosecuted because the defense took advantage of a rule allowing McIntosh to choose to be tried on only one of the indictments, leaving the remainder to be tried at the discretion of the prosecution. Defense attorney Charles Thompson said a single charge was chosen for fear that prosecutors would "stack" the penalties if McIntosh were convicted on all four counts, meaning that the penalties for each conviction could be added together.

The jury of eight women and four men took less than three hours to find that McIntosh paid a girl younger than age 17 to have oral sex on June 1, 2013. Although the girl agreed to accept $300 from McIntosh, he was charged with sexual assault because a minor cannot legally consent to sex.

The jury could have sentenced McIntosh to a maximum of 20 years in prison on the single sexual assault charge, a sentence prosecutors sought. The maximum on all four charges would have been 70 years.