Hawaii man indicted in Missouri for child pornography, cyberstalking

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – A Hawaii man accused of stalking teenagers on-line and distributing little one pornography appeared in U.S. District Court docket in St. Louis, Missouri on Wednesday.

Officers mentioned Gerardo Javier Montes was arrested in Hawaii on July 29 and arrived in St. Louis on Tuesday.

The indictment alleges that the 31-year-old distributed little one pornography on-line.

Between December 2021 and January 2022, Montes can also be accused of making an attempt to influence a 14-year-old woman to ship him nude photos of herself and threatening to publish nude photographs of her that he had already obtained. When she refused, the photographs have been posted.

An lawyer additionally mentioned Montes focused a 17-year-old in Oklahoma, a 16-year-old in Texas, a 13-year-old in Hawaii, a 26-year-old in California and different unidentified minors.

In response to the movement, Montes discovered a few of his targets on-line, in chat rooms or messaging boards discussing suicide or melancholy. He additionally allegedly pretended to be a younger woman to get different younger women to ship him little one intercourse abuse materials.

He has pleaded not responsible to the fees.

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