Kingsburg girls were victims of sexual exploitation by Texas man, PD says

KINGSBURG, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Police accidental 2 Kingsburg girls were the victims of the Texas antheral indicted for the intersexual exploitation of 2 minors.

According to the Kingsburg Police Department, 49-year-old Thomas Henry Lopez of Houston inappropriately communicated with 2 girls from Kingsburg, ages 9 and eleven, via societal media betwixt June and July.

Police accidental Lopez archetypal contacted the children done TikTok and continued to pass with them done the encrypted app JusTalk. He told the girls helium was a 12-year-old lad and asked them to execute sexually explicit behaviour and nonstop him the signaling of themselves - which they did.

The DOJ says Lopez besides sent the children images of adults and minors engaged successful sexually explicit behaviour and images of himself masturbating.

49-year-old Thomas Henry Lopez

With the assistance of the Central California Internet Crimes against Children and the Fresno FBI office, Kingsburg detectives flew to Texas and served a hunt warrant connected Lopez and his residence. Lopez was not home, but respective physics devices were recovered arsenic evidence.

Authorities accidental they were capable to find Lopez astatine the airport, conscionable earlier helium was astir to committee a formation to Singapore.

Lopez was arrested on-site connected national charges for the production, distribution, and reception of kid pornography. He has been indicted connected 2 counts of intersexual exploitation of children, 1 number of organisation of a ocular depiction of a insignificant successful sexually explicit conduct, and 1 number of transportation of obscene material.