WESTON, Fla. – A 20-year-old Weston man used the handles “Prvhuman4576″ and “Pwedolover457″ on the Kik messaging app to share child sexual abuse videos, Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies said.
They said besides illicit videos, Brandon Michael Bieber also shared pro-pedophilia memes in chats with others. He’s now facing two felony child pornography charges.
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A BSO arrest report states that the investigation into Bieber began in August after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a tip from Kik that he had uploaded three files of child sexual abuse material.
Authorities said after further investigation, they executed a search warrant Tuesday at Bieber’s apartment in the 100 block of Bonaventure Boulevard.
Deputies said he was shown two screenshots of videos obtained through a digital search warrant, which depicted girls as young as 2 being abused by adults and admitted to sending them, initialing the printouts.
“He stated that he also had transmitted the memes found in the account, which promoted pedophilia,” BSO Detective Nicholas Masters wrote in the report.
Masters wrote that detectives seized multiple devices from Bieber “and the review of digital forensic evidence is ongoing.”
As of Thursday, he was being held in the BSO Main Jail on a $10,000 bond, jail records show.