FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A U.S. Marine was extradited to South Florida Wednesday to face federal prices after brokers stated he coerced a 13-year-old Broward woman to ship him quite a few nude pictures by way of Snapchat and inspired her to hurt herself.
Federal court docket data present that Ryder-Lee Graham was initially arrested in Quantico, Virginia, the place he’s assigned to the Marine Corps Embassy Safety Group, in mid-November. A prison grievance states that the 20-year-old is from Colorado.
In keeping with the grievance, the investigation into Graham started when the woman’s mother and father discovered “sexually express materials” on her Snapchat account and known as Broward Sheriff’s Workplace deputies to their Lauderdale-by-the-Sea dwelling on Aug. 25.
A Homeland Safety Investigations agent stated within the grievance that authorities discovered “a number of obscene photos,” together with a photograph of an individual’s wrists with cuts on it.
Authorities stated the woman had been talking with an account referred to as “GrymLee” since November 2023, when she was 12. They stated “GrymLee,” later recognized by investigators as Graham, initially claimed to be a 15-year-old boy from California however later stated he was 19; she claimed to be 14.
Messages discovered on the woman’s telephone revealed that Graham had “repeatedly requested (her) to supply and ship him sexually express photos and movies (of) herself,” the grievance states.
Authorities stated the woman “threatened to commit suicide” if Graham didn’t cease the requests and in response, he “known as (her) a whore and advised her to do it.”
He additionally “inspired (her) to chop herself” and threatened to share her express pictures publicly and along with her lecturers if she refused to conform along with his requests, brokers stated.
Authorities stated they served a state search warrant on Graham’s Snapchat account and located greater than 100 photos of kid sexual abuse materials depicting the woman, together with these wherein she’s carrying distinct beaded bracelets Graham advised her to make.
The grievance states that she later turned the bracelets over as proof.
Graham, dealing with federal prices of manufacturing of kid pornography and coercion and enticement of a minor, is scheduled to look in Fort Lauderdale federal court docket on Friday.
On-line data present he was being held within the BSO Fundamental Jail on behalf of the U.S. Marshals Service as of Thursday.
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