A transgender youth, who seven months ago urged locals to vote “yes” on a veto referendum enabling those who identify as transgender to access locker rooms and similar facilities designated for the opposite sex, has now been slapped with sexual exploitation of child and distribution of child pornography charges.
19-year-old Jakob Nieves, a man who identifies as a woman, “did knowingly employ, use, persuade, induce, entice and coerce” a four-year-old girl “to engage in any sexually explicit conduct” with him “for the purpose of producing any visual depiction of such conduct,” court records show.
Mr Nieves began exchanging messages with another person in a Kik group created for those interested in trading images of pedophilia. Kik is a mobile messaging app.
As the chat progressed, Mr Nieves allegedly shared with the conversation partner images of a small child performing indecent acts on his penis.
Unbeknownst to Mr Nieves, the conversation partner was an undercover federal agent. His transfer of photos portraying him engaged in illegal acts with a minor sparked a federal investigation, according to the criminal complaint.
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| Jakob Nieves, a 19-year-old man who identifies as a woman named Dakota, is accused of raping a four-year-old girl and sharing the images with an undercover agent. |
Christina DiLorio-Sterling, spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling, says Mr Nieves admitted to agents during the search that he had made and distributed the obscene material.
If convicted on both counts, Mr Nieves faces anywhere from 20 and 50 years behind bars, up to a lifetime of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.
Mr Nieves is being held in federal custody.
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This article first appeared on Women Are Human.
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