On Monday, a 41-year-old father pleaded guilty to child pornography charges. What makes matters even worse is that the victim is his own daughter. The man, whose identity is remaining anonymous in order to protect the daughter, posed as a teenage boy on Instagram and proceeded to carry out an online relationship with his daughter. As if that alone isn’t terrifying enough, he manipulated his 14-year-old daughter into sending him nude photos.
According to Cosmopolitan, the man began this horrendous ordeal in October of 2013. He and his daughter began dating via the internet, but things got even worse when the daughter tried to end the relationship.
He then threatened his daughter, saying that if she didn’t send him more photos, he would send their conversations and photos to her father (which was also him—this is getting confusing). The daughter sent more photos hoping to finally end things.
After some time had passed, the father then posed as the fake teenage boy’s mother on his phone, texting his daughter to say her ex-boyfriend had committed suicide. Then, the father proceeded to take the texts and photos between his daughter and the “boyfriend” and put them on his phone, telling his daughter someone had sent them to him. He used these to sexually abuse his daughter.
After this, the daughter was able to find help going to her school’s nurse. Now, the man had plead guilty to 12 counts of enticing a child to produce child pornography and to sending and receiving child porn. He faces up to 250 years in prison.