Florida Legal professional Normal James Uthmeier introduced {that a} 21-year-old Cudjoe Key man has been arrested and charged in an investigation involving youngster sexual abuse materials and animal sexual abuse materials.
Jacob Rookey faces a number of fees, together with promotion, possession, and transmission of kid sexual abuse materials, solicitation of kid sexual abuse materials, producing altered sexual photos, producing youngster sexual abuse materials, and promotion of animal sexual abuse materials.
“Buying and selling in materials that entails the sexual exploitation of youngsters and animals is what retains the sick marketplace for this materials alive,” Uthmeier mentioned. “We are going to search the utmost punishment beneath the regulation for predators who perpetuate this abusive commerce.”
In line with the Legal professional Normal’s Workplace, the investigation started after the Broward County Sheriff’s Workplace obtained a cyber tip from the Nationwide Heart for Lacking and Exploited Kids. The tip alleged that Rookey was possessing, viewing and transmitting youngster sexual abuse materials by means of Snapchat.
Investigators mentioned the Broward County Sheriff’s Workplace recognized Rookey by means of his IP tackle and decided that the case fell beneath the jurisdiction of the Florida Division of Legislation Enforcement’s Florida Keys area.
FDLE later obtained subpoenas and search warrants that authorities mentioned uncovered communications involving the shopping for and promoting of kid sexual abuse materials and animal sexual abuse materials. Investigators additionally mentioned Rookey solicited minors to ship youngster sexual abuse materials and posed as an underage lady in most of the communications.
Rookey was arrested following the investigation. If convicted as charged, he faces as much as 100 years within the Florida Division of Corrections.
The Legal professional Normal’s Workplace mentioned the investigation stays ongoing and that further fees could also be filed.
Assistant Statewide Prosecutor Jillian Tate will prosecute the case in Florida’s Sixteenth Judicial Circuit.
Earlier this 12 months, Rookey obtained the Individuals’s Delight Award after he carried out CPR on a person experiencing a medical emergency at Wyland Galleries, the place he was an worker.
