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?Sexting' turns into Weld County extortion case

By "eAdvocate"

12-7-2009 Colorado:Weld teen learns difficult lesson in textingThe landscape of teen relationships is changing, and as technology grows, so do cyber relationships ? and cyber crime.One Weld County teen learned the hard way this past year as a relationship she started with a California college student after meeting him through the popular MySpace social networking site led to cell phone ?sexting.? That led to an exchange of sexual photos and videos and an eventual extortion charge.On Friday, that man, Geovany Alarcon, now 20, was sentenced to four years in prison. He was accused of threatening to send sexually explicit photos and videos of her to her friends if she did not pay him $1,500. He pleaded guilty in October to sexual exploitation of a child, but he was originally charged with extortion as well...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 07, 2009 (boomark / email).