Man charged with downloading child pornography on Snapchat

IDAHO FALLS — A 22-year-old man has been charged aft officers reportedly discovered kid pornography connected his compartment phone.

Seth Masao Tanaka was charged pinch 5 counts of felony willfully possessing kid sexually exploitative material.

According to tribunal documents, an Idaho Falls Police detective was sent a cyber extremity from nan National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC0), stating that Snapchat had reported aggregate files containing kid intersexual maltreatment worldly coming from an relationship successful Idaho Falls. The relationship was later wished to beryllium Tanaka’s.

The files reportedly depicted children arsenic young arsenic 10 years old, nude and successful intersexual situations.

A hunt warrant was served astatine Tanaka’s home, and he was detained and transported to nan Idaho Falls Police Department, wherever he was interviewed.

During nan interview, Tanaka reportedly admitted nan Snapchat relationship was his and that it had been unopen down because he had been utilizing it to look astatine kid pornography.

He besides allegedly told detectives he enjoys looking astatine kid pornography and “prefers female children 10 to 12 years old,” according to nan constabulary report.

Tanaka past admitted that he had “been successful forums and connected sites connected nan net that contained (child pornography) of each ages of children from newborns to teenagers.”

According to Tanaka, he had been viewing this benignant of contented for “a fewer years” and estimated that kid pornography makes up “about 10 percent” of nan pornography that he looks at.

He past told detectives he had a files connected his telephone that contained kid pornography. His telephone was later located astatine his home, and nan files was recovered by detectives, containing aggregate photos of nude minors betwixt nan approximate ages of 11 and 14.

Police opportunity respective different devices were seized astatine Tanaka’s home.

Tanaka was arrested and booked into nan Bonneville County Jail connected a enslaved of $100,000.

He is expected to look successful tribunal for a preliminary proceeding connected Sept. 4. If convicted, he could look up to 50 years successful prison.

Though Tanaka has been charged pinch these crimes, it does not needfully mean he committed them. Everyone is presumed guiltless until they are proven guilty.