The Michigan resident posed as an 18-year-old when he began communicating with the victim
A Michigan man was sentenced to at least 33 years in prison for engaging in illicit online communication with a 13-year-old Newark girl.
Dennis G. DeHate, 51, of Sterling Heights used the text message application KIK to persuade the girl to send him sexually explicit images and videos of her, the U.S. Attorney's office in Michigan's Eastern District said in a news release Thursday.
He posed an an 18-year-old male while communicating with the girl.
The victim's father testified that his daughter was emotionally fragile because severe allergies had caused her skin to become patchy and discolored. Her hair also fell out, MLive.com reported. She was also bullied at school as a result of her condition, court papers stated.
A 51-year-old man was sentenced to at least 33 years in prison for online exploitation of a 13-year-old New Jersey girl DeHate had been convicted in January of two counts of sexual exploitation of a child; two counts of possessing child pornography; two counts of transferring obscene material to a minor; and coercion or enticement.
The father alerted the FBI in New Jersey in August 2014 when he found the lewd messages on his daughter's phone. DeHate's online communication with her began in June.
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