March 28, 2024
Sextortion figure admits victimizing young boys
RIVERSIDE – (INT) - An Eastvale man pleaded guilty Monday to a federal child exploitation offense after coercing at least six boys around the nation to send him sexually explicit videos. Some of were posted on the internet when victims refused to send additional images and videos.

Francisco Javier Soledad, 25, admitted using the internet to induce a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity.

In a plea agreement filed in United States District court, Soledad admitted victimizing six boys between the ages of 12 and 15 over the course of several months in 2016. Soledad found the victims – who lived across the nation, from California to Georgia – on social media sites he accessed under the handle “linkinparkrocks.”

According to court documents, Soledad assumed different personas – sometimes a 13-year-old boy, and other times an adult woman – to convince the victims to send him explicit photographs and videos. When several of the victims refused demands to send additional images, Soledad threatened to publish the previously sent images on social media platforms. In at least one instance, Soledad published one of the victim’s nude images on Twitter along with the victim’s Twitter handle.

Soledad further admitted that he possessed on his digital devices more than 5,000 images and videos of child pornography and child erotica.

Soledad is scheduled to be sentenced January 22nd.
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