A South Florida man was caught sharing child pornography after a woman he paid to communicate with on a pornographic website turned him in, according to authorities.
Daniel Rodriguez of suburban Boca Raton faces charges of possession of child pornography and sharing it. He remained in the Palm Beach County Jail on Friday with his bail set at $30,000, according to jail records.
In August, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children got a tip from a woman who works as a model for an undisclosed website that allows people to pay to see models undress and perform sexual acts as well as live chat with them. The woman, whose identity was redacted from the report, told investigators she has her fans follow her on Skype, a video chatting application, for further interactions.
One of her fans, Daniel Rodriguez, asked her if she liked taboo things, but more specifically if she liked kids. When she said no, the conversation moved on, she told investigators. When they communicated again days later, Rodriguez told the woman of his interest in children. In one conversation, he told her how he had molested a child before and drugged a girl and allowed a friend to molest her, according to the report.
After, she said Rodriguez live-streamed videos of girls, from as young as infants and no older than 8 years old, engaged in sexual acts, the sheriff’s office said.
The woman went to police with the information, but they told her if they didn’t have photographic evidence the couldn’t do anything at the time. The next time Rodriguez contacted her, she used her cellphone to discreetly to take photos of the man as he shared the child pornography from his Skype profile, “ITSTHEBIGGEST.”
In September, Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies went to speak with Rodriguez, who admitted to “fantasy role playing” but said he never molested any children. A week later, investigators got a search warrant for his suburban Boca Raton home and his electronic equipment. At the scene, Rodriguez said, “You are not going to find anything on it.”
Investigators did find evidence he possessed and transmitted the videos, according to the report.
Rodriguez pleaded guilty to DUI in 2012 but does not appear to have any other criminal history in Palm Beach County, according to court records.
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