SAN FRANCISCO — A Peninsula driving teacher stands accused in U.S. District Court docket of coercing and attractive underage teen women to provide pornography for him.
Johnnatan Zelaya Izaguirre, 39, of Redwood Metropolis, is charged with two counts of coercion and enticement of a minor, one rely of receipt of kid pornography and one rely of possession of kid pornography, in response to an indictment handed down by a federal grand jury Sept. 1.
Court docket information allege Izaguirre used his “place of authority and energy of social media to prey on teenage women” beginning in 2013. The victims ranged in age from 14 to 17.
“He used social media to establish teenage women … and entice and coerce them to provide baby pornography,” the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace stated in a memorandum requesting Izaguirre be detained pending additional courtroom proceedings. “He enticed them by, amongst different issues, complimenting their appearances, growing sexualized ‘friendships’ with them and providing monetary rewards for creating the express content material.”
Izaguirre directed one sufferer to make “promo movies” of her sporting “lingerie or one thing actually skimpy,” together with extra express movies of her masturbating, in response to the memo. He additionally allegedly despatched her buyer requests for particular sexual fetish movies and a listing of the cash she may earn for non-nude and nude movies.
“The costs ranged from $8 to $20,” prosecutors stated. “The defendant defined that he would get a present card code from a sale he would ‘break up’ together with her.”
In response to the memo, Izaguirre informed the sufferer “If something occurs, you informed me you have been 18.”
Izaguirre additionally leveraged his place as a driving teacher to establish and coerce teenagers to provide pornography for his private use and on the market, in response to the memo.
Most just lately, Izaguirre met an spy posing as a 17-year-old lady. He mentioned his aspect job as a supervisor of express on-line content material throughout their classes, and he later developed a sexual relationship together with her and requested her to make express content material for him, in response to the memo.
“All through his conversations with the (spy), the defendant displayed an acute consciousness that what he was doing together with her was unsuitable,” prosecutors stated. “The (spy) supplied to cease speaking to him and phone him after she turned 18, to which the defendant replied no, he couldn’t let her go.”
Izaguirre was arrested Jan. 4 throughout a deliberate meet-up with the spy.
Prosecutors stated Izaguirre owned and operated a driving faculty in San Mateo County. Whereas they didn't explicitly title the varsity within the memo, they included an excerpt of an e-mail from former college students that referred to it because the California Driving Academy.
Not less than 4 former college students, two or three of whom have been minors on the time, reported that Izaguirre made sexual remarks to them throughout their driving classes, in response to the memo. Izaguirre allegedly informed them he was in regulation enforcement, and whereas he graduated from a police academy, he by no means joined a regulation enforcement company.
“In no circumstances is it acceptable for you, an grownup man able of disproportionate energy and authority, to interact in conversations about intercourse with underage women,” the previous college students stated within the e-mail.
A Justice of the Peace choose on Wednesday ordered Izaguirre to be detained pending additional courtroom proceedings.
Izaguirre is subsequent scheduled to seem Oct. 6 earlier than U.S. District Court docket Choose William H. Orrick.