Utah
Utah man pleads guilty to child exploitation in two states
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah man has pleaded responsible to 2 federal little one exploitation circumstances, one in Arkansas and one in his dwelling state.
Landon Germaine, 24, of Woods Cross, Utah, pleaded responsible to felony interstate coercion and enticement of a minor within the Utah case. Within the case in Arkansas, he entered a responsible plea for tried sexual exploitation through manufacturing of kid pornography.
He entered a pleas in Utah’s U.S. District Court docket for each circumstances. Germaine’s sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 5, 2023.
The affidavit filed by federal prosecutors mentioned Germain used social media cellphone apps, together with Kik, Telegram, Snapchat, Periscope and textual content messages “to solicit graphic sexual pictures and video from minor youngsters.”
In keeping with Deseret Information, Germain was arrested in Might of 2020 and advised investigators that he enticed younger women, one as younger as 11, to ship him the sexual content material.
“In these chats, Germaine offered particular directions on what the minors ought to depict within the pictures and movies and Germaine repeatedly supplied to pay the minors cash for sending him sexually specific movies,” in response to a press release Wednesday from U.S. Legal professional Trina A. Higgins within the Utah District.
“Germaine additionally acknowledged that he was a member and administrator for quite a few different identified little one pornography teams on social media purposes and on the web,” a 2020 affidavit states. When he was arrested the FBI Baby Exploitation process power served a search warrant at Germaine’s dwelling.
Paperwork mentioned the “FBI positioned and noticed quite a few sexually specific and nude photographs/movies of prepubescent- and pubescent-age youngsters on digital gadgets belonging to Landon Germaine.”
Within the launch Higgins mentioned detectives from Woods Cross Police Division, different police and officers from 14 extra U.S. judicial districts joined the FBI within the investigation.