US man accused of selling explicit photos of high school girls in sextortion scheme


A San Fernando Valley man was indicted for allegedly using Instagram to post and sell sexually explicit photos of high school girls without their consent – and threatening to post more images in a sextortion scheme. — Dreamstime/TNS

LOS ANGELES: A San Fernando Valley man was indicted on July 2 for allegedly using Instagram to post and sell sexually explicit photos of high school girls without their consent – and threatening to post more images in a sextortion scheme.

A federal grand jury charged Sylmar resident Alejandro Garcia Aranda, 23, with advertising child pornography, distributing child pornography and transmitting threatening communications with intent to extort, according to a news release from the US Attorney's Office in the Central District of California.

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