Man Posed As One Direction’s Harry Styles To Sexually Exploit Young Children
Friday, 31 May 2013
Written by Elliott Batte
A 45 year-old American man has been charged with ‘employing a minor in an obscene performance’ amongst other things this week - after posing as One Direction’s Harry Styles and offering young children tickets to One Direction concerts in return for performing sex acts on webcam.
Connecticut-based John Eastman travelled to Virginia earlier this month, but was arrested after a warrant was issued following accusations that he’d been using Skype - with the username Harry.Styles888 and some pictures of the singer - to convince young children he was Styles, before using the identity to get them to perform lewd acts on webcam.
Currently being held on a bail of $500,000, police found hundreds of graphic pictures and videos of child pornography, while his webcam was being used to take dozens of indecent pictures of children as young as five, Sky News reports via Republican American. It’s also been claimed that he’d offer the kids One Direction gig tickets in return for the sexual favours.
He’s since been ‘hauled back’ to Connecticut after being found in Virginia, and now faces charges which include ‘employing a minor in an obscene performance’.
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