DE PERE, WI (WTAQ) – Authorities say a De Pere man passed himself off as a 17-year-old boy on Facebook in order to get nude photos of underage girls.
Dalton Hodkiewicz, 23, appeared in Brown County Court Monday.
Prosecutors say Hodkiewicz contacted girls posing as Jim Jacobsen.
“What’s disturbing is for example on one of the victims he also indicated he wanted to meet up with her eventually too,” Dana Johnson, deputy district attorney for Brown County, told FOX 11.
In July, police say they were tipped off when Hodkiewicz was arrested for domestic violence. At the time, prosecutors say Hodkiewicz’s girlfriend showed them the Jim Jacobson Facebook account that she believed her boyfriend was using to chat with young girls.
“The chats involved numerous users, which appeared to be primary females, teen to pre-teen based on their profile pictures,” said Johnson.
Through search warrants obtained during the investigation, police believe Hodkiewicz was talking with 7 girls from March through June of this year. The girls are between 13 and 17-years-old. Four of them are from Portage County, two are from South Carolina and one from Florida.
According to police, Hodkiewicz sent each girl 2 to 3 nude pictures. The 14-year-old Florida girl was the only one to send pictures of herself back.
“He later says I wonder what your friends will think when I post your pics haha,” said Johnson. “She starts saying please don’t post that picture.”
During the court hearing Monday, Hodkiewicz’s attorney says his client should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
“I haven’t seen the state of the evidence at this point, but I don’t know if we’re talking about another person because I hear Jim Jacobsen mentioned a lot,” said attorney Chris Froelich.
Hodkiewicz is being held on a $20,000 cash bond based on probable cause.
Police say there is no evidence to believe Hodkiewicz ever had physical contact with any of the teens.
