Man Solicited Preteen Girls On TikTok, Sent Nude Photos: Montco DA

NORRISTOWN, PA — Local authorities have arrested a New Jersey man and charged him with exchanging sexually explicit photos with two pre-teenage sisters from Montgomery County.

The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office on Tuesday announced the charges against Ryan Corcoran, 26, of Andover, N.J., who investigators say sent and requested naked photos first through social media and then through text messaging.

According to prosecutors, Montgomery County detectives were tipped off in April by the father of two local girls, ages 11 and 12, who said they had been solicited through TikTok, and then through cellphone text messaging, by a user who at one point stated he was a 14-year-old, but who was actually Corcoran.

Both of the sisters were sent naked photos and then were asked to provide naked photos of themselves, the DA's Office stated.

Investigators traced the texting phone number to a service called Ad Hoc Labs, which helps users conceal their true phone numbers.

Detectives served a subpoena on Ad Hoc Labs and ultimately discovered that the phone number associated with the service, as well as the IP address for the computer used in the case, belonged to Corcoran's father, according to the DA's Office.

When investigators went to Corcoran's father's home to serve a search warrant, the younger Corcoran then admitted that the cellphone number was his, prosecutors stated.

The DA's Office said that a download of Corcoran's phone showed that the girls phone numbers were stored as contacts; investigators also found the original naked photos sent by one of the girls.

"This defendant was reaching out to random young girls on a social media platform and soliciting them to take photos of themselves in sexually explicit poses, clearly creating child pornographic images," Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said in a statement. "This is another example that there are predators out there on the internet trying to take advantage of young innocent children. Parents need to be ever-vigilant to protect their children from these predators."

The Montgomery County DA's Office said it was assisted in the investigation by Homeland Security Investigations, the New Jersey Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, and the Sussex County New Jersey Prosecutors Office.

Corcoran is being charged with felony child pornography possession, unlawful contact with a minor, corruption of minors and criminal use of a communications facility.

He was arraigned on June 13 before Magisterial District Judge Maureen C. Coggins.

Corcoran was subsequently released from custody after posting bail. He was also ordered to have no contact with minors and to refrain from using the internet.

A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Jun 27.