An Ohio grand jury has indicted a 21-year-old man on sextortion charges involving a minor in Missouri.
Nicholas Scott is charged with sexual extortion, illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material, nine counts of endangering children, and three counts of nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images, WLWT reported.
The station said that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force sent a tip to the Clermont County Sheriff’s Office in October regarding an incident that happened on the app Snapchat in July.
Detectives identified a juvenile victim in Missouri and contacted the victim and their guardians.
Prosecutors said that the victim believed they were communicating with a woman and sent a nude image to the suspect’s account. The suspect was Scott, however, and not a woman, and he soon demanded more photos and videos and threatened to send them to friends and family of the victim if they didn’t comply.
Officials said the minor was snot the only victim and that Scott used photos and videos of an adult woman — who was a real person who lived in Colorado and did not know her images were being used — to solicity material and money.
Investigators traced the Snapchat accounts information to his home in Tate Township and secured a warrant to search the home on December 26.
Officials say he cooperated with the search and provided a statement in which he took responsibility and said there were no local victims.
He was booked into jail that day and was held on a $100,000 bond, but the bond has since been revoked.
Deputies said they were working with NCMEC and ICAC to identify further victims.
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[Featured image: Nicholas Scott/Clermont County Sheriff’s Office]
