Man met 15-year-old girl while playing Fortnite, then raped her, US cops say

In a statement after his arrest, Atkinson said he met the girl on Fortnite and began to chat with her and make video calls on an app called Discord, the affidavit says. — Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash

A 26-year-old man is accused of raping a 15-year-old girl he met while playing the online video game Fortnite, according to a Florida sheriff’s office.

Dillon Atkinson, 26, is charged with lewd and lascivious behaviour or lewd and lascivious battery on a victim between 12 and 16 years old, according to an arrest affidavit from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. Lewd and lascivious behaviour is also known as statutory rape, according to a Florida attorney’s office.