MOBILE, Ala. (NBC 15) \u2014 A Florida man is facing multiple charges after investigators say he posted nude images of victims on TikTok and publicly shared one victim\u2019s address. The Mobile County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested 45-year-old Joshua Smith on Thursday. One victim, who asked not to be identified, told NBC 15 News that Smith posted nude images of her during a TikTok livestream. She says the images remained online for nearly 24 hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s horrible. It\u2019s absolutely embarrassing,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s mortifying. Not only did my kids see it, my kid\u2019s boyfriend saw it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Investigators say there are multiple victims in Alabama and out of state.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe will meet these people on TikTok, become friends, and they\u2019ll join a messaging group of his,\u201d said Sgt. Lonnie Parsons. \u201cEventually something happens that sends him into a rage. He\u2019ll create a TikTok live video \u2014 and that\u2019s where he perpetrates his crime.\u201d<\/p>\n
Smith was first arrested January 15th on two counts of distributing a private image and later bonded out of jail. On Thursday, deputies arrested him again on additional charges of posting nude images of two other people \u2014 a man and a woman \u2014 during a TikTok livestream. He is also charged with doxing a victim, which involves publicly sharing someone\u2019s personal information online.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s becoming dangerous,\u201d said Parsons. \u201cNow we have Mr. Smith, who thinks that putting his victim’s address on live is something that he thinks he should do, and he’s dead wrong.”<\/p>\n
Police records also show Smith faces a cyber harassment charge in Okaloosa County, Florida, and violating a stalking injunction. The victim we spoke with says Smith has created more than a dozen TikTok accounts and is active on livestreams.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn Sunday morning, he does church on TikTok where he acts like a preacher, but it’s like the weirdest church. If you were to watch it, it would be like mind blowing, part of its Christian, and the other part of it is harassing and dragging people. It’s really weird,” said the victim.<\/p>\n
Another victim, who also did not want to be identified, called Smith an “online menace.” Smith remains in Mobile County Metro Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOBILE, Ala. (NBC 15) \u2014 A Florida man is facing multiple charges after investigators say he posted nude…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-181402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}