33-year-old Juan Carlos Ramon of Portland, Oregon pretended to be a girl on Musical.ly so he could communicate with two girls who were ages 6 and 8. Not a typo. Six and eight. I’m so disgusted by this story I’m just going to copy and paste the next bit…
According to court documents, Ramon encouraged the kids to play a “Simon Says”-type game, where he would send sexually explicit photos of a minor female and ask them to take and send him photos imitating the positions and acts depicted.
Again, I repeat, his victims were 6 and 8-years-old.
Ramon pleaded guilty back in May to child porn and child exploitation charges. Last month, he was sentenced to 15 years behind bars.
On top of that, Ramon admitted to soliciting underage girls for explicit photos for years on every creeper’s favorite video chat site, Omegle. The Musical.ly app that Ramon used has since been merged with TikTok.
Children with single-digit ages have no business being son social media. If your kids are this young and getting on apps like this then you’ve been outsmarted by a grade-schooler. No child has any business being on most social networks and apps, especially if they’re unattended. If they have any kind of internet-enabled device with a camera, then they’re prime targets for predators like this.
I realize I’m constantly repeating myself with these warnings and I may be a one-trick pony, but obviously, there are people out there who still haven’t gotten the message.
(Sources)
Fox 12 Oregon
KXL
