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A 21-year-old Kissimmee man has been arrested on multiple child-exploitation charges after deputies say he first tried to groom a 10-year-old girl while delivering food for the Osceola Response Team, a nonprofit that provides community relief and disaster-response services.
According to the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, Alberto “AJ” Jose Castaner Jr. posed as an 11-year-old boy to engage in online messaging with the girl after delivering food to her home. While these exchanges did not meet the threshold for criminal charges, deputies said they showed signs of grooming, prompting the sheriff’s Internet Crimes Against Children unit to launch an undercover operation. Detectives created a profile of an 11-year-old girl targeting Castaner and said he engaged in sexualized conversations, solicited nude photos and sent explicit images of himself to the profile he believed was a minor…