Windsor Man Charged With Enticing Minors To Engage In Sexual Activity Online

HARTFORD, CT — A Windsor resident was arrested Thursday on a federal criminal complaint charging him with enticing minors to engage in sexual activity.

Christopher Rodriguez, 31, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert A. Richardson in Hartford and was ordered detained, according to David X. Sullivan, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and P.J. O’Brien, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

According to court documents and statements made in court, in October and November 2023, Rodriguez used the social media applications LiveIn and Discord to communicate with an 11-year-old girl in Florida and coerced her to send him a sexually explicit video of herself. In November and December 2023, Rodriguez, posing as a teenager, communicated with a 13-year-old girl from Pennsylvania using Discord and iMessage, engaged in sexually explicit conversations with her, coerced her to send him sexually explicit images and videos of herself, and sent the minor female sexually explicit images he claimed were of himself, Sullivan said.

The complaint charges Rodriguez with coercion and enticement of a minor, an offense that carries a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 10 years and a maximum term of imprisonment of life, Sullivan said.

The investigation is being conducted by the FBI’s Child Exploitation Task Force, which includes federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, with the assistance of the Connecticut State Police.