A Plymouth man has pleaded guilty to cyberstalking charges.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says that 36-year-old James Florence Jr. was charged with engaging in a variety of techniques and methods to allegedly harass and intimidate his victims and others in the community, including making fake nude images of the victims, doxing or exposing victims’ personal information, creating vulgar fake accounts in the victims’ names.
Florence was accused of obtaining, -and then widely distributing, private information about the victims, such as private photographs with the photographs often being doctored to appear sexual or pornographic in nature.
It is also alleged that Florence encouraged others to extort, shame, defame and intimidate victims for pornographic material.
Florence plead guilty to seven counts of cyberstalking and one count of possession of child pornography.
He could face up to five years in prison on the stalking charges and a sentence of 20 years in prison for the child pornography charge.
