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A New York health care executive has been charged with using social media to prey on nearly a dozen teen girls over a period of four years.
Investigators uncovered at least 20,500 files of child porn on Jacob Walden's cloud storage, and identified him as "a repeat purchaser of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from a large-scale production and distribution ring that advertised, sold and distributed CSAM to adult male buyers."
Walden also used social media and encrypted messaging services to engage in sexually explicit conversations with at least 11 minors, the youngest girl being 14.
During these conversations, Walden coerced the girls into producing child pornography of themselves for payment.
In his chat conversations with the victims, Walden insisted that he be addressed as "daddy," provided directions for what content the minors were to produce, and paid the girls via electronic payment after he received the requested content.
Investigators further found Walden had repeatedly purchased at least 500 images and 5,000 videos depicting rape, bestiality and the abuse of toddler-age children from a large-scale production and distribution ring that advertised to adult male buyers in the US and abroad.
Walden was initially arrested, then ordered to home confinement, but immediately violated the conditions of his release by targeting a woman on WhatsApp. He is now being held without bail until his trial at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
Investigators uncovered at least 20,500 files of child porn on Jacob Walden's cloud storage, and identified him as "a repeat purchaser of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from a large-scale production and distribution ring that advertised, sold and distributed CSAM to adult male buyers."
Walden also used social media and encrypted messaging services to engage in sexually explicit conversations with at least 11 minors, the youngest girl being 14.
During these conversations, Walden coerced the girls into producing child pornography of themselves for payment.
In his chat conversations with the victims, Walden insisted that he be addressed as "daddy," provided directions for what content the minors were to produce, and paid the girls via electronic payment after he received the requested content.
Investigators further found Walden had repeatedly purchased at least 500 images and 5,000 videos depicting rape, bestiality and the abuse of toddler-age children from a large-scale production and distribution ring that advertised to adult male buyers in the US and abroad.
Walden was initially arrested, then ordered to home confinement, but immediately violated the conditions of his release by targeting a woman on WhatsApp. He is now being held without bail until his trial at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.