DEL REY — On Friday, January 6, 2023, a resident of the Del Rey neighborhood of Los Angeles, Mark David Wallin, 42, pleaded guilty to the federal criminal charges of one count of production of child pornography and one count of enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity, the U.S. Department of Justice released in a statement. Wallin has been in custody since his arrest in July 2022. According to the Department of Justice statement, from 2019 to August 2021, Wallin used the internet, specifically the multimedia instant messaging app Snapchat, to meet preteen boys and girls, both abroad and in the United States, in order to develop virtual romantic relationships with them. Wallin did this with the intent to collect sexually explicit images and videos of them; he also persuaded his victims to engage in sexually explicit conduct via video-chat, so that he could take screen shot images and videos of them, according to court documents. After his victims sent him sexually explicit content, Wallin would demand more sexual images and videos from them. In February and March of 2020, Wallin lured a victim, approximately 9 or 10 years old at the time, into engaging in
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Mark David Wallin Guilty Of Using Snapchat To Produce Child Pornography – Canyon News
