An Andover, New Jersey man has been arrested after allegedly asking 11- and 12-year-old Pennsylvania sisters to send him nude photographs on popular social media app TikTok. Authorities say the suspect even posed as a 14-year-old girl in text messages soliciting child porn.
Ryan Corcoran, 26, stands accused of two counts each of contacting or communicating with a minor – sexual abuse, and corruption of minors. He also faces one count each of disseminating a photograph or film of child sex acts, and criminal use of a communication facility, according to Montgomery County court records reviewed by Law&Crime.
He was arrested for those six felony counts on June 13, 2022 and arraigned later that same day. The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office announced the case on Tuesday, June 21, 2022.
“This defendant was reaching out to random young girls on a social media platform and soliciting them to take photos of themselves in sexually explicit poses, clearly creating child pornographic images,” Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said in a press release. “This is another example that there are predators out there on the internet trying to take advantage of young innocent children. Parents need to be ever-vigilant to protect their children from these predators.”
According to law enforcement, the case came to the attention of Montgomery County detectives in late April of this year.
The father of the two girls reported his 11-year-old and 12-year-old daughters were first solicited via direct messages on TikTok direct messages to send naked pictures of themselves. The same person then allegedly contacted each girl via text message to request the same sorts of images, the father told investigators. Those requests were allegedly made between April 17, 2022 and April 20, 2022.
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