A Virginia man authorities describe as a “白人至上主義者” そして “an advocate for pedophilia” is facing charges in California and Colorado for traveling across the country to kidnap a 12-year-old girl.
Nathan Daniel Larson, 40, is in Denver County Jail on a misdemeanor charge and faces felony charges in California for the kidnapping that authorities say utilized such “洗練された” grooming methods that they fear there may be more victims.
声明の中で, インクルード Fresno County Sheriff’s Office said Larson operates a website “which encourages the raping of children and sharing of naked photos and video of children being raped.”
It is unclear if Larson, who is scheduled to appear in Denver County Court on December 24, has an attorney.
Months of ‘manipulation and grooming’
Larson met the girl, who lives in Fresno, on social media in October, 保安官事務所は言った. Through two months of “manipulation and grooming,” Larson convinced her to send him pornographic images of herself, the sheriff’s statement said.
先週, he flew to Fresno and persuaded her to sneak out of her house around 2 午前. 月曜, 声明は言った, and then used a rideshare company to take her to the airport. Larson altered the girl’s appearance with a long wig and told her to act as though she was disabled and unable to speak so that she would not speak with anyone while they boarded a plane, 当局は言った.
Later Monday morning, law enforcement was notified the girl was missing. When detectives learned that Larson and the girl had boarded a plane to Washington, DC, with a layover in Denver, they contacted authorities there and asked them to check the airport for Larson, 保安官事務所は言った.
A Denver police officer found and arrested Larson and FBI agents rescued the girl, who was uninjured, 保安官事務所は言った. They made arrangements for her to reunite with her family Monday evening.
Larson now faces a misdemeanor charge in Denver of harboring a minor and is facing felony charges in Fresno County, カリフォルニア, for kidnapping, child abduction, soliciting child pornography from a minor and meeting a child for the intention of sex, リリースによると.
The Fresno County Sheriff’s office is requesting he be extradited to California.
It’s also asking any other possible victims of Larson to come forward.
“Due to the sophisticated nature of how Larson groomed this Fresno girl, detectives believe he has victimized other children in the past,” 保安官事務所は言った.
Suspect has previous criminal charges
This is not the first time Larson has faced serious criminal charges. に 2009, he served 14 months in federal prison for sending “a detailed email to the U.S. Secret Service threatening to kill the President of the United States,” the Fresno Sheriff’s Office said. Larson sent the email in December 2008, when George Bush was the outgoing president and Barack Obama was the president-elect.
Larson’s 2017 political campaign photo.
Years after his prison sentence, Larson ran for the Virginia House of Delegates as an independent in 2017 and lost, according to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office.
に 2018, ワシントンポスト reported on Larson’s support for “abolishing age restrictions for marriage and laws against marital rape,” legalizing incest, and his views on White supremacy “as a ‘system that works'” そしてそれ “Hitler was a ‘good thing for Germany.'”
