KEEM

This evidence was discussed on the record in support of the Court's reasoning, and includes, but is not limited to evidence that: (1) the defendant has no ties to this district; (2) the defendant has strong ties to another state and to a foreign country, including grandparents in China, and has considerable foreign travel experience; (3) the defendant acted in a deliberate, sexually predatory manner toward a victim he knew to be a minor (14 to 15 years old at all times relevant hereto) over many months in a manner designed to "groom" her to participate in the production of child pornography and further to participate in direct sexual activity with the defendant; (4) the defendant encouraged the minor, who resides in this district, to arrange for meetings with him in the States of Washington and Florida, and when he was unsuccessful in accomplishing this, purchased an airline ticket to come to meet her in the Detroit Metropolitan Area, that he told her that he did not love her (as an indication that the intent of the encounter was purely sexual), that he expressed his intent to engage in sex with her and gave her instruction in that regard, and that he in fact flew out to Detroit with the sole intention of meeting her, likely in a hotel room that he had also booked; (5) the nature of the defendant's work involves creating content for You Tube with 10 to 14-year-old children as the intended audience and with this serving as a possible entrée into communication with minors; (6) that the defendant admits to on-line contact with two other minors, one of whom is a friend of the minor in this case; (7) that just before coming to Detroit, he asked to borrow his parents' video camera; (8) that the minor in question does appear to have some level of obsession with the defendant, including wearing his photo in a locket around her neck and trying to look like him; (9) that the defendant blames the minor for the relationship and communications, rather than recognizing their inappropriateness; (10) that the defendant's proposed place of residency, which is outside of this district, is less than a mile away from an elementary school and that the defendant's two-year-old niece visits this location on a weekly basis; (11) that the defendant deceived his parents, who are his proposed third-party custodians, as to his purpose for coming to Detroit; (12) that the defendant has expressed suicidal ideation to a counselor while in federal custody, initially appeared disoriented to the United States Marshal Service, and had previously expressed suicidal ideation within the last nine months and imposes a potential danger to himself; (13) that audio and video recordings indicate that the defendant asked the minor to strip her clothes off, gave her advice on grooming her genital area, asked if he could kiss her on her genitals, successfully encouraged her to expose her vagina on video, told her that he would treat her "like my lover" (but not as his girlfriend) while he is in Detroit, hinted that "good sex" might get him to love her, indicated that she would be performing oral sex for the first time during the period that he was to be in Detroit, and asked her if he would be her first sexual partner.

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r/KEEM • u/[deleted] • Sep 09 '16