CA Man Who Posed As Girl To Obtain Child Porn Had WI Victims: Sheriffs

WISCONSIN — A 24-year-old man from Sacramento County was accused of posing as a young girl named "Lizzy" and grooming more than 80 children across the U.S., including Wisconsin, into sending him child pornography, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office announced.

Investigators searched Demetrius Davis' home on Dec. 1, 2022 and found "numerous screen recordings" stored on his digital devices showing children engaged in sex acts, Sgt. Rod Grassmann of the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office said in a video posted to the sheriff's Facebook page.

Three of the children in contact with Davis were from Wisconsin, according to investigators that searched his phones and accounts. More than 80 children were identified across the U.S., including eight in California, nine in Texas, 11 in Indiana, eight in Florida, six in Pennsylvania and six in New York.

At least 15 victims live in other countries, Grassmann said. He asked parents of children who contacted a girl named "Lizzy" through online messaging apps come forward, because there are possibly more victims out there.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children sent Sacramento investigators a tip that an online account in the area was suspected of uploading child pornography to the internet.

"Davis is suspected of generating numerous fictitious social media accounts portraying himself as a prepubescent female child named Lizzy," Grassmann said.

He used the accounts to contact and then groom children over the internet, talking to children in sexually explicit language, and even sent children videos of child pornography, Grassmann said.

Daniel Hampton, Patch Staff, contributed to this article.