Jeffrey Cummings Of Baltimore To Serve 30 Years For Coercing Minors To Engage In Sex Acts

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A Baltimore antheral volition service 30 years successful national prison, followed by a beingness of supervised release, for pleading blameworthy to enticing minors to prosecute successful intersexual enactment during the clip helium was required to registry arsenic a enactment offender, according to a connection Friday from the Maryland District of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Jeffrey Cummings, 36, tried to coerce dozens of insignificant victims to prosecute successful sexually explicit behaviour connected societal media betwixt March 2017 and July 2019 and communicated with astatine slightest six, according to the statement. He was required to registry arsenic a enactment offender for his 2008 condemnation successful Anne Arundel County for intersexual interaction with a 10-year-old boy, according to the statement.

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Authorities began investigating Cummings aft the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a CyberTip from a guardian of 2 boys. The boys’ aunt told investigators idiosyncratic contacted her nephews and asked them to message soiled socks.

During the aforesaid clip period, Cummings had respective societal media accounts nether respective names and utilizing mendacious pistillate personas to unreal helium was a young miss communicating with the boys, who were betwixt 13 and 16, according to the statement. Cummings asked them to nonstop pictures and videos of themselves successful explicit intersexual behaviour and told authorities helium distributed immoderate of the photos helium received.

Cummings, posing arsenic a teenage girl, besides sends explicit pictures of a teen miss to astatine slightest 5 of the boys, according to the statement.

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He aboriginal told authorities helium told immoderate of the victims the soiled socks were for a subject task and offered $20 for 1 pair.

If the boys declined to comply with Cummings’ demands, helium threatened to station their names and addresses and administer their videos to their teachers and schoolhouse oregon station them connected societal media. He proceeded to bash truthful astatine slightest once, according to the statement.

When authorities executed a hunt warrant connected July 19, 2019, they seized his compartment telephone that contained images of kid pornography, including of the victims, the aliases for the fake societal media accounts. Cummings told constabulary the request for the soiled socks stemmed from a fetish.

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