In June, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit was contacted by Colerain police in Ohio after they learned a 12-year-old girl met an individual, later identified as Benjamin Martes, on Roblox, who instructed her to create and send sexual abuse material, Hudson County Prosecutor Wayne Mello said.
An investigation found Martes to be storing child sexual abuse material on electronic devices, Mello said. Martes is charged with endangering the welfare of a child/facilitating child sexual abuse material and endangering the welfare of a child/possession of child sexual abuse material, Mello said.
He was remanded to the Hudson County Correctional Facility pending his first court appearance, Mello said.
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