Deputy Sheriff sex-stalks 12-year-old girl he meets on kids game "Minecraft"

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 29 August 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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A Texas deputy sheriff is in custody after cyberstalking a 12-year-old girl. He struck up a relationship with her after playing the online game "Minecraft." Pasquale Salas, charged with sexual exploitation of a minor, coerced the girl into sending explicit photos by threatening her family. Joining Nancy Grace to talk about case: Defense Attorney Troy Slaten, Former NYPD John Cardillo, Psychoanalyst Dr. Bethany Marshall and Crime Online reporter Dave Mack.

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0:40.1	The fed say the two met online when the girl was only 12 and prosecutors say this
0:45.1	Sheriff Deputy would manipulate and threaten her all the way from Texas.
0:50.1	A Texas Sheriff Deputy accused of cyber stocking a Worcester County teenager
0:54.6	through the popular video game Minecraft.
0:57.4	According to the 13 page indictment unsealed Wednesday,
1:00.7	the 25 year old deputy would refer to himself as Geno and daddy and the minor as baby girl.
1:07.2	Prosecutors say the two met online back in 2014 when the victim was 12.
1:12.1	Over the years, authorities say the girl sent him hundreds of explicit photos of herself.
1:17.0	She's now 17 and reported to police this past spring.
1:20.4	She believed the Texas deputy was tracking her movements via social media.
1:24.6	And he was allegedly threatening to publish her explicit photos or rape her sister
1:29.4	if she didn't continue to send him nude pictures.
1:32.1	All him daddy.
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