US man who posed as teen to sexually exploit girls gets 20-year prison sentence

Starting in 2020, Lynch chatted with at least two 13-year-old girls via Snapchat, a social media platform, according to investigators. They say he told the girls he was a 16-year-old boy and used ‘sexually charged conversations’ to request sexually explicit photos from one of them. — Pixabay

A Florida man who pretended to be a teen on social media to get a 13-year-old girl to send him nude videos of herself was sentenced last week at federal court in West Palm Beach to 20 years in prison, court records show.

Olinto Ignacio Lynch of Lake Worth Beach was also condemned on Oct 24 to a lifetime of supervised release on charges of production of child pornography. The 28-year-old, federal agents say, also established a relationship with another 13-year-old girl that lasted more than a year – even driving to South Carolina to meet her.