KANSAS CITY (MO)
Fox 4
[with video]
BY MICHELLE PEKARSKY, SHANNON O’BRIEN AND KATIE BANKS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 30-year-old man has been charged in Platte County with two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor child and seven counts of promoting obscenity. He could face up to 58 years in
Wednesday afternoon during a news conference, Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd said he believes Anthony Snyder, 30, enticed the boys at Northland locations where children spent time.
Zahnd said Snyder encouraged seven boys, between the ages of 12 and 15, to view pornography on phones or computers that Snyder allegedly provided them. Two of the boys told child services advocates that Snyder connected them to what he said were teenage girls on a messaging service called KIK. The children said Snyder encouraged them to send pictures of their genitals to the girls. Instead, Prosecutor Zahnd alleges that some of the pictures went to an IP address belonging to Snyder rather than these purported girls.
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