Clackamas County Sheriff's Office arrests man on several sex abuse charges

CLACKAMAS COUNTY, OR (KPTV) – A Clackamas County man is behind bars – facing several sex charges. Police arrested 40-year-old Vitaliy Yasinskiy Wednesday night and investigators say he used Snapchat to lure his underage victim.”If your child has a smartphone, essentially, there’s thousands of sex offenders or pimps in your living room,” Detective Chad Kyser with Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office’s Adult Sex Crimes Unit, said.They’re sending that strong message to warn parents and children about the dangers of online predators after they arrested Yasinskiy. Kyser said Yasinsky used the Snapchat app to contact the underage victim in this case.”The offender essentially reached out to the victim and started following on Snapchat and then that segued into having contact. you know, replying to stories,” Kyser said. “Then that ultimately led to meeting up in person and that’s where the crime started occurring from there.”He said Snapchat tends to be commonly used in these cases because it’s harder to track.”Snapchat, the way the platform is set up is that when you send a message, it’ll instantly delete if you have it set up that way. So, retention of records presents a larger problem,” Kyser said.This has been going on for months, but…
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