By Lori Kurtzman
The Columbus Dispatch Saturday June 23, 2012 5:45 AM
Jeffrey Justice, 29, is accused of exchanging nude photos with a teen he met on a vampire site.
Vampires are big right now. Big enough that a teen might jump online to talk fangs and immortality or who Bella should have ended up with in the Twilight series.
But its not just teens on those sites, as two central Ohio cases show, nor is it all innocent chatting.
Prosecutors say two men charged in separate sex crimes this week met their victims on vampire-themed social-networking sites.
The latest accusations involve a northeastern Ohio man charged with swapping nude photos with a Licking County teen. On Thursday, a grand jury indicted 29-year-old Jeffrey Justice of Chesterland on one count of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material and one count of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles.
The indictment, released yesterday, alleges that Justice and the 15-year-old Newark girl exchanged the pictures some time between Jan. 1 and June 1 after meeting on a vampire website. Workers at a local youth club alerted authorities, Licking County Prosecutor Ken Oswalt said. Justice is being held at the Licking County jail.Earlier this week, a North Side man was charged in federal court with forcing a 15-year-old to perform oral sex on him at least seven times in his home or car. Randall V. Roberts, 41, who is jailed in Franklin County, met the girl on vampirefreaks.com, according to the complaint. From 2006 to 2010, records show at least three other men nationwide have been charged in sex crimes against girls they met through the same site.
While FBI spokeswoman Jenny Shearer said she hasnt heard of a trend of vampire site-related crimes, shes hardly surprised that potential sex offenders might search such forums for underage targets.
People who have those interests know where to go to find potential victims, she said.
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