Peters Township Excessive College senior charged with working legal community to abuse, exploit minors
A Peter’s Township Excessive College senior was simply arrested and charged with working a legal community involving “catfishing” and “sextortion.”
18-year-old Zachariah Meyers, who’s reportedly president of the senior class and a Peter’s Township athlete, is accused of sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of greater than 20 underage victims.
Channel 11’s Cara Sapida was the one reporter within the courtroom Friday as Meyers confronted a choose.
Sapida stories {the teenager} will probably be held with out bail, because the choose known as Meyers a “hazard to the neighborhood.”
We may have breaking particulars and response from the neighborhood beginning tonight on Channel 11 Information at 6 p.m.
On-line court docket data present Meyers is dealing with greater than 300 felony expenses.
In line with the legal grievance, Peters Township police first turned conscious of the reported legal community on Dec. 5.
Officers interviewed 30 underage boys and recognized at the very least 21 victims. The victims ranged in age from 14 to 17.
Police say the victims all reported being victimized over social media platforms like Snapchat and TikTok.
Meyers used a number of totally different accounts that used photos of different folks, together with an grownup movie performer from the Netherlands who shouldn’t be believed to be concerned within the community, police say.
The victims reportedly believed they had been speaking with a lovely younger lady.
The victims informed police that the legal exercise included solicitation of nude photos, manufacturing of pornographic movies and videotaping non-public areas of Peters Township Excessive College.
No less than 14 victims despatched pornographic materials of themselves, and at the very least one despatched movies of a non-public space in the highschool. One sufferer claimed he was coerced into having intercourse on two events with totally different grownup males.
One sufferer despatched quite a few nude images to Meyers, police say. When he stopped, Meyers reportedly informed him, “I want smth (sic) to maintain my silence.”
That’s when police say Meyers coerced him into having intercourse with two grownup males and videotaping the encounters.
Additionally, a sufferer secretly videotaped the Peters Township Excessive College wrestling locker room at Meyers’ course six totally different instances. The movies reportedly captured about ten totally different underage boys in varied states of undress, in addition to their conversations.
Meyers despatched a sufferer an specific photograph of one other sufferer and informed him to hitch Grindr and have intercourse with him, police say.
Peters Township police say they had been granted quite a few search warrants and court docket orders for social media content material, which in the end led them to Meyers.
Meyers was taken into custody on Friday. Proof on Meyers’ telephone linked him with the legal exercise, the grievance says.
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