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Priest accused of sending mothers explicit sex abuse pictures of children he had blackmailed online
An Ohio priest has been indicted on child pornography and juvenile sex trafficking charges for allegedly enticing young boys to send explicit images of themselves.
Reverend Robert D McWilliams, from Strongsville, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, was initially arrested in December 2019 for possession of child pornography, but was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury on Thursday on several different charges.
The 40-year-old is now facing two counts of sex trafficking of a minor, three counts of sexual exploitation of children and three counts of pornography offences involving children.
The US attorney’s office said that Mr McWilliams knew some of his alleged victims through his work as a priest at the St Joseph Catholic Church, according to CNN.
Mr McWilliams allegedly pretended to be a woman on social media sites, to entice underage boys to send him sexually explicit videos, according to Northern District of Ohio US attorney, Justin E Herdman.
