INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ A judge has sentenced a 23-year-old Indianapolis man to 28 years in prison after he admitted tricking teenage girls into sending him explicit photos via Facebook and using the photos to coerce the girls into having sex with him.
U.S. District Judge William Lawrence sentenced Austin Williams on Monday after he pleaded guilty to charges of producing, receiving and distributing child pornography and coercing minors into sexually explicit conduct.
Court documents say Williams posed as teenage girls on Facebook, befriended at least 10 Indianapolis-area girls as young as 13, and persuaded them to send him explicit photos of themselves. A complaint said he threatened some that he would post the photos on Facebook unless they had sex with him.
A telephone message seeking comment was left for Williams' attorney.
