Law enforcement officers arrested a 25-year-old Scranton woman this month after she filmed herself performing oral sex on an 8-year-old and then put it on the social media platform TikTok, according to Lackawanna County District Attorney Brian Gallagher.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint, Zsionte D. Owens, 1700 Roselynn St., is charged with numerous felony offenses, including rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, aggravated indecent assault of a child, unlawful contact with a minor, corruption of minors, indecent assault, endangering the welfare of a child and multiple related counts.<\/p>\n
She remains at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $500,000 bail.<\/p>\n
The investigation alleges that during the month of March, Owens engaged in repeated sexual abuse involving an 8-year-old boy, including conduct that constitutes some of the most serious offenses under Pennsylvania law, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
The complaint further alleges the defendant recorded and possessed sexually explicit material, including filming herself performing sex acts on a child. In addition, the evidence shows that she took steps to conceal evidence and obstruct the investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis case represents \u2026 a level of depravity rarely seen. Filming the horrific, unspeakable, and appalling sexual abuse of (a child) demonstrates a complete lack of humanity,\u201d Gallagher said in a news release. \u201cThe allegations are horrendous and reflect conduct that strikes at the very core of our responsibility to protect children in this community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gallagher said his office worked in conjunction with law enforcement members of the Northeast Computer Crimes Unit and other investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Law enforcement officers arrested a 25-year-old Scranton woman this month after she filmed herself performing oral sex on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-148074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}