

He asked if his father could be there with him, but the agents said he was old enough to be alone. When questioned, Beyer said that yes, the Snapchat account was his, and no, he wasn't sharing it with anyone. He was read his Miranda rights and responded, "I understand." Then they put Beyer in the cruiser for questioning.

Then, at about 4:30 a.m., a SWAT team raided the house where Beyer lived with his dad and brother, and handcuffed all three, according to his mother, who is divorced and lives in Pennsylvania. But the FBI waited until September, a month after Beyer turned 18, to act.

The FBI became aware of his activity in June of 2021, probably because one of the girl's parents found out what he was doing and brought her phone to the authorities. When Beyer was 17, he made a fake account on Snapchat and started contacting girls about his same age. But to take an 18-year-old kid and put him in jail for longer than he's been alive?" Even if you want to give him five years, I'm okay with that, because I know he'll never do it again. I'm not saying my kid should get nothing. "Absolutely, he should know what he did was wrong and should get in trouble. "I'm not saying that I don't think my son should be punished for that," says Jessica Meloney, Beyer's mother. He faces up to 70 years in federal prison. That's what Eric Beyer Jr., of Hutchinson, Kansas, is accused of. It's obviously immoral, probably illegal, and quite simply wrong.īut are you knowingly creating child pornography and transmitting it across state lines? Now, let's say that you possibly paid the girls for their sexts, and then allegedly threatened to expose them unless they sent more of them. Let's say you're a 17-year-old boy asking two 16-year-old girls to sext you on Snapchat-well, that's pretty normal these days, right? Let's agree that it is.
