Thursday, August 08, 2019

Detention motion: Diamond man, 69, says he received nude photos of underage girls "but I didn't keep them"

In a document filed today in U. S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, U. S. Attorney said a Diamond man should be kept behind bars while he awaits trial on child pornography charges.

According to the document, Larry Lyle, 69, admitted to having sexual conversations with underage girls through an online video game and acknowledged receiving the nude photos of the children " but he claimed he had not kept them."

A federal grand jury indicted Lyle July 17.

The detention motion details the allegations against Lyle.

(On) May 21, 2018, Cincinnati, Ohio, Division FBI, received a report of a possible child enticement involving a 14-year-old minor female, Jane Doe. 

Jane Doe’s parents located communications between Jane Doe and the defendant within the messaging app of an online game and within Jane Doe’s emails. 

The messages were sexual in nature and the defendant was aware of Jane Doe’s age. Based upon the IP addresses associated with the defendant’s emails, the FBI was able to determine that the IP address checked back to the defendant with a service address in Diamond, Missouri. 

On January 15, 2019, FBI TFO Charles Root contacted the defendant at his residence and conducted a post-Miranda interview. The defendant admitted to communicating with numerous individuals, including underage minor females, via Internet-based video games, such as the one used by Jane Doe. 








The defendant stated that many of the conversations with the minor females were sexual in nature and he had discussed meeting the minor females; however, the defendant claimed he was just “farting around.” 

The defendant stated that the minor females he was chatting with were a 14-year-old and 15-year-old girl; however, he did not know who either girl was. 

The defendant also admitted he received nude images of the minor females, but he claimed that he had not kept them. 

On May 31, 2019, HSI TFO James Smith completed a forensic examination of the defendant’s laptop computer. Smith identified image and video files of child pornography.

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