A 32-year-old Utah man is facing felony charges after Franklin police say he used Snapchat to solicit and save sexually explicit photos from a 14-year-old Venango County girl, tracing the account back to him through a previous username, a matching birth date, and his own workplace timecards. Ian Larry Anderson, of Centerville, Utah, was charged on September 21 with three felony counts, according to exploreVenango.
According to exploreVenango, the investigation began on July 20 after a family member raised concerns to police about a conversation on a juvenile’s phone. Franklin officers reviewed the girl’s Snapchat account and found messages exchanged with a user going by the name “hatboxghost999,” according to the outlet’s report on the case.
Within the messages, the two accounts had exchanged ages, and the report indicates the user learned the girl was 14 years old. Despite that, the account told her, “I’m twice your age,” and later added, “I don’t mind chatting but i’m not into catching a case,” per the report.
Explicit Photo Requested, Then Saved
The account user asked the girl to send explicit photos, and at one point asked, “Mind if I save in chat? lol,” before requesting more images, the outlet reports. The girl sent an explicit photograph, which the user then saved in the Snapchat chat, according to the same account…