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How Do I Report A Sexual Predator

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At the beginning of the week my wife informed me that she had found out our 10 year old daughter had been texting with a random man that she had met on an app for kids and had exchanged numbers.

In these messages the individual was being completely inappropriate and kept alluding to something they couldn't tell her out of fear that they would get "mad".

So I went into full blown cybersleuth mode.

The individual has a very distinct way of spelling their name which led me to a profile with the exact same spelling and a location with an area code that matches the number.

I kept messaging this person all while they thought it was the same kid. They gave us their Snapchat username and the conversation moved to that platform.

The snapchat profile also uses the exact same spelling for the name and an avatar that is on point from the individuals real life pictures. In those conversations I have been recording everything while trying to pry what that question is out of the individual.

Well I finally got it, and it's recorded. The individual, whom is an adult, is asking for sexually explicit material from what they KNOW is a child.

So out of everything I have found I have:

  • The users full name
  • The users current address
  • An active mobile phone # (not VOIP, I checked that) with an area code that correlates with the users former address
  • Messages that corroborate info found on the users profile
  • Pictures from the users profiles, including one with them standing at a playground
  • And of course a message asking a minor to provide sexual material

The only thing I do not have is concrete information that the number is theirs, because it's just completely ignored. And the user will not show their face on Snapchat.

But out of everything all of the information I have gathered is beyond imo circumstancial and would have to be one of the most complex cases of Catfishing I know of.

My question is how do I report any of this? The individual in question lives several states away. Do I have enough material that this would even be taken seriously by law enforcement?

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