A U.S. airman has been charged with coercing a 9-year-old woman to share sexually express photos of herself, after he posed as a 13-year-old on the gaming web site Roblox.
David Ibarra, 31, was arraigned Wednesday in a New York federal courtroom after being arrested in February in Anchorage, Alaska, the place he was serving on lively responsibility within the Air Power, prosecutors mentioned in an announcement.
A choose ordered him to be held pending trial on prices together with sexual exploitation of a kid. Ibarra’s lawyer didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Ibarra was serving as an air transportation specialist Senior Airmen, which primarily handle cargo, in line with an Air Power spokesperson.
Prosecutors say the woman, who lives on Lengthy Island, met the person on TikTok in August and he requested her to speak with him on Roblox, telling her he was a 13-year-old boy dwelling in Texas.
He allegedly bought the woman to textual content him from her telephone and ultimately directed her to create express movies and pictures, whereas sending her cash through Apple Pay.
Ibarra paid her $191 in a collection of 17 transactions, prosecutors allege.
The woman’s mom ultimately grew to become conscious of the messages. Posing as an older sister, she garnered extra details about the sender by texting him from her personal telephone, and he in the end despatched her a selfie revealing a part of his face, in line with the indictment.
Investigators used Ibarra’s El Paso, Texas-based telephone quantity and searched his iCloud account to verify his identification, in line with prosecutors.
Below interrogation the 31-year-old allegedly admitted to paying the woman for the photographs, saying he thought the sufferer was 12. Prosecutors say he acknowledged coercing different ladies into sending express photos as effectively, together with one in New Jersey.
