SANTAQUIN — A Santaquin guy used to be charged Monday with contacting teenage ladies on social media, convincing them to ship specific photos after which — in a minimum of one case — threatening to publicly liberate the images.
Nicholas Santiago Gonzales, 20, is charged in 4th District Court docket with sexual extortion, a first-degree legal, and 4 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree legal.
The investigation started Nov. 6 when a 17-year-old lady instructed her faculty useful resource officer about “some exploitation and threats she have been experiencing over the social media platform Snapchat,” in keeping with charging paperwork.
The lady defined that when assembly Gonzales on-line, their conversations was sexual and she or he despatched him pictures and movies of herself, the fees state.
Gonzales then started to threaten the woman and “threatened to percentage the pictures of (her) if she didn’t name him ‘daddy’ or catch up with him to interact in sexual acts. (Gonzales) threatened he would ‘leak’ her nude pictures and movies to others if she refused to conform,” the charging paperwork allege.
After she went to the officials in her faculty for lend a hand, police bought a seek warrant for Gonzales’ social media account.
“The subscriber knowledge launched a plethora of pictures and chat conversations between (Gonzales) and different Snapchat customers,” the fees state.
Police then bought warrants for Gonzales’ digital units. When puzzled, he denied receiving any photos or movies from the woman till after she became 18. Alternatively, he “admitted that he continuously has conversations with ladies he does now not know on Snapchat” and has gained “sexually specific movies from a couple of women on Snapchat however denied that the women had been beneath the age of 18,” in keeping with the fees.
Alternatively, in reviewing the movies and images on his Snapchat account, officials had been in a position to spot a 16-year-old lady from Bountiful, investigators wrote within the fees.
“Officials reviewed different conversations that (Gonzales) had with different minors on Snapchat. Within the conversations, (he) asks the minors to satisfy up or have interaction in sexual acts. On a number of events, the minors verify their age and that it’s unlawful for (Gonzales) to request to satisfy up and have interaction in intercourse. (He) continues to solicit those different minors in those conversations on more than a few social media platforms,” in keeping with the charging paperwork.
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