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<\/p>\nThe Hernando County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested a man deputies say forced at least eight children, in multiple cities between central and northeast Florida, into child porn, including kids in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
The youngest was three years old. The oldest was ten.<\/p>\n
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Nathan Holmberg<\/p>\n
Hernando County Sheriff Al Nienhuis announced on Friday that Nathan Holmberg is facing almost a dozen charges, including child cruelty, child abuse, and sexual battery of a child under 12 years old, among other charges. The sheriff said during a news briefing that someone, not yet being identified, tipped Hernando County deputies after claiming to have seen \u2018sex acts\u2019 on Holmberg\u2019s phone involving a young child.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Sheriff Nienhuis said Holmberg had initially been arrested for driving with a suspended license, but searched Holmberg\u2019s home in Hernando County and found not only his phone, but 30 other electronic devices also believed to have child porn saved on them.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we found on that cell phone is 650 pictures or videos. About 100 of those are videos of child sexual abuse material,\u201d said Sheriff Nienhuis.<\/p>\n The Hernando County sheriff said deputies have spent the last week and a half scouring the photos and videos on the phone to identify the children they say were shown in them. He believes it will take months to go through whatever material may be on Holmberg\u2019s 30 other devices.<\/p>\n \u201cWe asked him if he had any child pornography downloaded on his phone. He said, \u2018No, I make my own,\u2019\u201d Sheriff Nienhuis said.<\/p>\n Action News Jax found that Holmberg\u2019s history of child sex crimes in Jacksonville dates back to at least 2012. An arrest report from the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office says Holmberg forced a young student whom he nannied to have sex with him, which he pleaded guilty to later that year. He was sentenced to five years of probation, which Duval County court records show was violated four times.<\/p>\n We learned that Holmberg lived in a neighborhood on Jacksonville\u2019s Southside that same year, before moving into the Bartram Springs neighborhood, where he lived until 2015, before leaving Duval County.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Sheriff Nienhuis said Hernando County deputies discovered Holmberg has worked in the past as a babysitter, nanny, substitute teacher, youth sports coach and a volunteer at multiple churches. Deputies believe he may have used these jobs to commit sex crimes and create child porn, but the sheriff said it may take years until investigators are able to have all of the answers.<\/p>\n \u201cIt makes you sick to your stomach. It makes you want to cry for these victims. And it certainly enrages you,\u201d said Sheriff Nienhuis.<\/p>\n The sheriff said there is now a task force of nine detectives from law enforcement agencies across Florida that are dedicated to finding any other child victims involved in this case.<\/p>\n \u201cI know we\u2019re going to find between 1 and 10 more victims, maybe more,\u201d Sheriff Nienhuis said, \u201cwe want to get them the help and get them interviewed.\u201d<\/p>\n Holmberg, at the very least, faces life in prison if he is found guilty of any of the crimes he\u2019s been charged with. He\u2019s set to go before a Hernando County judge on November 18th.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hernando County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested a man deputies say forced at least eight children, in multiple cities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26208,26209,14676,26207,7086,116,118,117,26011,26210],"class_list":{"0":"post-38400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-al-nienhuis","9":"tag-child-cruelty","10":"tag-child-sexual-abuse","11":"tag-child-victims","12":"tag-hernando-county","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","15":"tag-jacksonville-news","16":"tag-nathan-holmberg","17":"tag-nienhuis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38400","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=38400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}