Alan Gathright wrote this article for abc7
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. - An Ohio man has been charged with
three felonies for sexually extorting a 13-year-old Arvada girl over the
Internet from 1,300 miles away, the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office
said Wednesday.
The
man investigators are calling a "sextortion" suspect, Gregory Scott
Kasarcik, 24, of Ripley, Ohio, has been extradited to Colorado.
He
appeared March 5 in Jefferson County court, where he was advised of the charges
against him -- sexual exploitation, Internet sexual exploitation and criminal
exploitation, said Pam Russell, spokeswoman for the Jefferson County District
Attorney's Office.
Arvada
police were called on Jan. 2 by a woman who said two traumatized neighbor girls
-- sisters, ages 13 and 16 -- had come to her door crying about something that
had happened on the computer. The teens were babysitters for the neighbor and
their mom was at work.
The
13-year-old girl had met Gregory Kasarcik on a teen social website called
SceneKids. His profile claimed that he was a 15-year-old boy, according to an
arrest affidavit. Kasarcik used the screen name "ericfringe2" and
profile photo showing a shirtless white male with long hair, the affidavit
said.
Kasarcik
used the pretense that he needed the girl's help solving a camera problem to get
her to move from the SceneKids website to a "live" camera Skype
session, according to the affidavit.
Suddenly,
the man was sending texts demanding that she take off her clothes. The girl
refused, but the man said he had her IP address and would blow up the new
laptop that her grandparents just had given her for Christmas, the affidavit
said. Her grandmother had specifically instructed the girl to take care of the
laptop and not damage it.
The
frightened girl took off her clothes.
The
man ordered her to perform sex acts on camera and, when the girl refused, he
threatened to post her nude photographs on the Internet, the affidavit said.
The traumatized girl gave in to the man's repeated threats, lying nude on her
bed in front of the laptop camera, performing explicit sexual acts.
Eventually,
the 13 year old turned off the camera and turned to her 16-year-old sister for
help. The older sister texted "ericfringe2" via Skype, warning
him that she would call police if he posted her little sister's nude photos on
the Internet.
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