Florida authorities say an adult man demanded that a 14-year-old girl send him nude photos and threatened to rape and kill her if she didn't comply, as well as her family.
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David McGuinness, 20, of the Brevard County Sheriff's Office, struck up a conversation with the 14-year-old girl on Snapchat after seeing a photo she posted publicly. Said.
After the girl learned her age, she stopped responding to McGuinness, but several months later McGuinness re-engaged with the victim and asked for nude photos, the sheriff's office said.
When the victim refused, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said, McGuinness “began making extremely vile threats to rape and kill the victim and the victim's family.”
“McGuinness even told the victim that he knew where the victim lived and that he would be there within an hour if the victim did not respond,” Ivey said, adding that McGuinness ” “I have demonstrated that I actually know the location,” he added, because the “Snap Map” service is turned on. [him] This is to find out where the victim was. ”
According to Ivey, the girl told her parents what was happening, and McGuinness said on Thursday that Agent Stanton Wimmer of the agency's Special Victims Unit had “suspected her of murder, extortion, lewd acts, and computerized electronic blackmail.” He was arrested after obtaining an arrest warrant for his poor corpse on charges.” This is an invitation to children. ”
The sheriff added, “McGuinness is currently safely housed in the Indian River County Jail and was arrested pursuant to our warrant even though he promised not to actually harm anyone.” added.
Mr Ivey said Mr McGuinness' bail was set at $76,000 and he would “immediately go to 'Ivey's Bar Lodge', where he will have a very different kind of social life with his new cellmates and friends. There will be media interaction,” he added.
“It’s just scary.”
The sheriff called the whole situation “simply scary” and warned parents to monitor their children's internet usage.
“I always tell parents there's never been a better time than now to talk to their kids about internet and social media safety,” Ivey said in a news release.
“As parents, we want our children to enjoy life, but we also want to do everything we can to keep them safe. If you allow the use of anything connected to the Internet, please check all the rules regularly: parental controls, privacy settings, [take] Take all other measures possible to prevent people like McGuinness from getting to them! ” he said.
Ivey added that parents should “always remember that monitoring your children's every move is not an invasion of privacy, but simply to keep them safe.”
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