A California man allegedly targeted dozens of children on social media and other online apps in order to coerce them into producing sexually explicit videos for him.
Adrian Gutierrez, 22, of Ontario, California, pretended to be the age of his victims in the communications, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office press release from the Kansas District.
‘While Mr. Gutierrez mostly targeted children between the ages of ten and twelve, his victims were as young as nine years old.’
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He would then allegedly coerce them into making “visual depictions of themselves engaged in sexually explicit conduct” during live video calls with him.
Prosecutors said Gutierrez sent the communications to children between May 2023 and October 2024.
Twenty-one of the victims have been identified from across 18
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