A pedophilia website operator has been arrested in the kidnapping of a 12-year-old girl

Nathan Daniel Larson, 40, is in Denver County Jail for felony charges and is charged with felony charges in California for kidnapping that authorities say used such “sophisticated” care methods that they fear will increase victims.

In a statement, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office said Larson operates a website “that encourages the rape of children and the sharing of nude photos and videos of raped children.”

It’s unclear whether Larson, who is due to appear in Denver County Court on Dec. 24, has an attorney.

Larson met the girl, who lives in Fresno, on social media in October, the sheriff’s office said. During two months of “manipulation and grooming,” Larson convinced her to send him pornographic images of herself, the sheriff’s statement said.

Last week, he flew to Fresno and persuaded her to sneak out of her house at around 2 a.m. Monday, the statement said, then used a carpool company to take her to the airport. Larson changed the girl’s appearance with a long wig and said she should pretend she was disabled and couldn’t speak so she wouldn’t talk to anyone while they boarded a plane, authorities said.

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Monday morning, the police received a message that the girl was missing. When detectives learned that Larson and the girl had boarded a plane to Washington, DC, with a layover in Denver, they contacted authorities there and asked them to check the airport for Larson, the office said. sheriff.

A Denver police officer found and arrested Larson, and FBI agents rescued the girl, who was not injured, the sheriff’s office said. They arranged for her to reunite with her family on Monday evening.

Larson now faces felony charges in Denver for housing a minor and in Fresno County, California, faces felony charges for kidnapping, child abduction, requests for child pornography from a minor, and meeting a child with intent to have sex. have, the release said.

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The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office is asking him to be extradited to California.

It also asks all of Larson’s other possible victims to come forward.

“Because of the refined way Larson cared for this Fresno girl, detectives believe he has abused other children in the past,” the sheriff’s office said.

Suspect has previous criminal charges

This isn’t the first time Larson has faced serious criminal charges. In 2009, he was in federal prison for 14 months for sending “a detailed email to the US Secret Service threatening to kill the President of the United States,” the Fresno Sheriff’s Office said. Larson sent the email in December 2008, when George Bush was the outgoing president and Barack Obama the president-elect.

Larson's 2017 political campaign photo.

Years after his jail term, Larson ran as an independent candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates in 2017 and lost, according to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office.

In 2018, the Washington Post reported on Larson’s support for “ the abolition of marital age restrictions and marital rape laws, ” “ legalizing incest, ” and his views on white supremacy “ as a ‘system that works’ and that ” Hitler was a ‘good’. thing for Germany. ”

CNN’s Jennifer Feldman contributed to this report.

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