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Former Substitute Teacher, Coach In Maryland Admits To Preying On Children Online: Feds
The Maryland volleyball coach who posed as underage boys and girls to entice minors through social media copped to the crime and will spend more than a decade in prison. Evan Thomas Harris Frock, 34, a substitute teacher and volleyball coach in Carroll County, pleaded guilty this week to sexual exploitation of a child after targeting at least eight minors between the age of 9 and 17, federal authorities announced. According to prosecutors, the Taneytown man used social media accounts to meet and communicate with children and to encourage them to produce and send him images and videos o…
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Maryland Man Sentenced For Posing As Teen Girl On Social Media To Entice Boys
A 25-year-old Maryland man who posed as a teenage girl on social media to exploit underage boys for illicit materials which he then sold for a profit has been sentenced to decades in prison. Baltimore resident Matthew K. Walsh, 25, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, followed by 30 years of supervised release for the sexual exploitation of a minor in order to produce child pornography. Specifically, federal prosecutors say that Walsh created fictitious online profiles purporting to be a teenage girl to contact and induce underage boys between the ages of 12 and 17 to se…
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Predator Sentenced For Using Social Media To Trade Explicit Images For Vapes With Teens In Area
Authorities announced that a North Carolina man has been sentenced to time in federal prison after admitting to using social media platforms and traveling over state lines to exploit teenage boys in Virginia. Jonathan Avery Shumate, 54, of Warrensville, N.C. has been sentenced to 151 months in federal prison after pleading guilty earlier this year to one count of coercion and enticement of minors. Prosecutors say that Shumate used both Snapchat and Grindr to contact teenage boys attending Oak Hill Academy in Grayson County, and offered to provide vapes and vaping materials in exchange for t…
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Maryland State Police Warns Parents Of Online Sexual Extortion Scam
The Maryland State Police are reminding parents to stay vigilant about monitoring their children's online activity after receiving multiple reports of sexual extortion scams. The suspects are contacting minors over various social media platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram, professing romantic interest for the victim in order to gain their trust. As communication progresses, the suspects begin to ask for sexually explicit images of the minors, sometimes even sending photos back in return. After the minors send images to the suspect, the suspect account will demand money…
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Maryland State Police Issues Warning Of Online Scam Involving The Sexual Extortion Of Minors
The rise of sexual predators targeting minors on social media has led Maryland State Police officials to issue a warning to parents. Authorities said that state police investigators have received multiple reports of minors being contacted by other social media users who began conversing with them over messaging services on Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. “Investigators believe online predators may often give the impression they are romantically interested in the minor being targeted, to gain their trust,” they stated. “As the chats progress, the suspect user will request sexually illic…
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