US (Washington Insider Magazine) —A young man was sentenced in Orlando, Florida, to 19 years and 7 months in federal prison for allegedly attempting to incite a minor to engage in sexual activity.
U.S. District Judge Berger handed down the sentence Friday against Ethan Lipper. The young man, 21, pleaded guilty on June 7, 2023, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida reported on its website.
Court documents say that on January 16, 2023, a detective from the Oviedo Police Department posed as an undercover agent as a 14-year-old teenager on a social media application, although it was not specified which one.
He indicated that Lipper joined a group called “Orlando Teens,” where he began communicating with the alleged victim, not knowing that he was an undercover agent.
There, he sent photographs of himself and then gave out his phone number in an attempt to get attention and sexually assault the teenager. The prosecution pointed out that the young man sent six videos and that in at least two of them there were images of child sexual abuse.
One of the videos, the prosecution indicated, showed an adult man sexually assaulting a minor between 9 and 11 years old.
The arrest of Ethan Lipper
The aggressor traveled on February 1 of this year to an address in Oviedo to meet with the child and sexually abuse him. But authorities detained him when he arrived and confiscated and searched his phone.
“During a forensic review of his cell phone, more than 100 images and videos of child sexual abuse images were located. Most of the images showed children approximately 5 to 10 years old. In three of them, children under 5 years of age appeared, including a baby,” he explained.
Also found on the device were conversations between Ethan Lipper and teenagers between the ages of 12 and 17, in which he asked them for sexually explicit photos. Some of their victims provided them with the material.
The prosecution pointed out that to date the FBI has located and interviewed five of those children and stated that the search for the remaining potential victims is ongoing. Anyone with information, he stressed, can contact the federal investigative and intelligence agency.
This article is originally published on eldiariony.com
