TOPEKA —A Kansas man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas on federal child pornography charges, according to Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division late Wednesday.
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The three-count indictment charged Jeffrey Pierce, 40, a basketball coach at Seaman High School, with producing and possessing child pornography. Pierce is alleged to have solicited sexually explicit images and videos from minor victims.
Using social networking platforms, Pierce would contact his victims while pretending to be a teenage girl, according to the FBI.
He would then solicit explicit photos or videos from the juvenile victims. Pierce used the following user/vanity names when contacting his victims through Instagram, Snapchat, KiK, and Grinder.