BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014A township man accused of sexually extorting nine girls between the ages of 12-to-15 across multiple states will now be charged federally, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office withdrew charges this week against Jonathan Brodecki, 21, of Bensalem Township, authorities said.<\/p>\n
“It is a federal case now,” said Manuel Gamiz Jr., the Bucks DA’s director of communications.<\/p>\n
A federal grand jury indicted him on similar charges of sexual extortion of minors earlier this month and arrested him on Tuesday, authorities said.<\/p>\n
In January, Bensalem Police received information regarding a Snapchat account that was sexually extorting a 15-year-old girl.<\/p>\n
Through investigation, it was determined that the creator and user of the account in question, \u201cjack_goodric,\u201d was a 21-year-old Bensalem resident Jonathan Brodecki, police said.<\/p>\n
Brodecki had been utilizing this Snapchat account to impersonate a middle-school or early high-school-aged boy, authorities said.<\/p>\n
He then was able to convince the 15-year-old girl to send him sexually explicit photos and videos, as she believed he was her age, police said.<\/p>\n
When the 15-year-old victim attempted to break off contact with Brodecki, he threatened to post the explicit images of her publicly, police said.<\/p>\n
Upon further investigating this \u201cjack_goodric\u201d Snapchat account, Bensalem detectives identified eight other victims. These victims were all female, from ages 12 to 15.<\/p>\n
In all instances, Brodecki would \u201cadd\u201d these girls on Snapchat and represent himself as a teenager, sometimes 13, 14, or 15, police said.<\/p>\n
He would then request that the girls produce and send him sexually explicit images, which many of the victims did.<\/p>\n
Brodecki also sent sexually explicit images to multiple victims, police said.<\/p>\n
At least one other victim, a 13-year-old girl, was sexually extorted by Brodecki, who threatened to find her and rape her, as well as publicly post explicit images of her.<\/p>\n
A search warrant was executed at Brodecki\u2019s home in March.<\/p>\n
Brodecki was charged with Sexual Abuse of Children, Sexual Extortion and Distribution of Images, Sexual Abuse of Children\/Possession of Child Pornography, Unlawful Contact with a Minor, Obscene and Other Sexual Materials and Performance\/Dissemination to Minors, the corruption of minors, Terroristic Threats, Stalking, and the Criminal Use of a Communication Facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014A township man accused of sexually extorting nine girls between the ages of 12-to-15 across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-207897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207897","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=207897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}