Lowell intercourse offender sentenced for sexually extorting Vermont 11-year-old by way of Snapchat

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Chayanne Nieves was already registered as a intercourse offender and was on probation from an assault on a toddler conviction when the extortion passed off.

A decide sentenced a 25-year-old Lowell man to 17 years in jail Wednesday for sexually extorting an 11-year-old Vermont lady.

The defendant, Chayanne Nieves, was already registered as a intercourse offender and was on probation from an assault on a toddler conviction when the extortion passed off.

Over the course of 4 days in November and December 2020, Nieves obtained nude photographs of the sufferer via Snapchat, the U.S. Lawyer for Massachusetts mentioned in a press launch Thursday. He then compelled her to interact in “graphic” video chats with him whereas he masturbated by threatening to submit the nude photographs on-line if she didn’t cooperate.

The sufferer’s mom intervened and reported Nieves to native police, the discharge mentioned. Throughout a search of Nieves’ house in Lowell, he confirmed that the Snapchat account used to speak with the sufferer was his.

Nieves turned a degree three intercourse offender in 2018 after a Middlesex Superior Courtroom convicted him of indecent assault and battery on a toddler underneath 14, the discharge mentioned.

Nieves pleaded responsible to at least one rely of receipt of kid pornography in reference to the extortion in June 2022. On Wednesday, U.S. District Courtroom Choose Indira Talwani sentenced him to 210 months in jail and 10 years of supervised launch, the discharge mentioned.

“Nieves is a convicted intercourse offender who used social media to proceed to hurt youngsters, even whereas on probation. This important sentence ensures he might be off the streets and unable to prey on youngsters,” Particular Agent Michael Krol mentioned within the launch.