A Boston man who would gown up in Spider-Man and different superhero costumes has been federally sentenced to greater than 25 years in jail on baby exploitation offenses.
Federal choose Margaret R. Guzman has sentenced Jalen Latimer, 26, of Roxbury, to twenty-eight years in jail, adopted by 15 years of supervised launch. The choose additionally ordered the defendant to pay restitution as soon as the quantity is set.
Latimer “was known to dress up as a superhero” who would work together with youngsters, in accordance with a launch from Massachusetts U.S. Legal professional Leah Foley’s workplace.
The defendant, at present serving a 15-year sentence in state jail, pleaded responsible to at least one depend of conspiracy to commit intercourse trafficking and two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor final December.
The state jail sentence, handed down final March following Latimer’s arrest in January 2024, will run concurrently with the federal sentence, Foley’s workplace stated. State authorities convicted the defendant of three counts of aggravated rape of a kid, 4 counts of aggravated indecent assault and battery on a toddler and human trafficking of a minor.
Latimer and one other man, Michael LaMountain, 42, of Oxford, are stated to have “recorded themselves raping a ten year old” in July 2022, Foley’s workplace highlighted in its launch.
“The minor victim’s five-year-old sibling was used to create the recording of the sexual assault,” the workplace added. “Over a year later, in July 2023, Latimer conspired with that same adult to arrange the sexual assault of another child. Latimer was asked to pay $50 for the child, however, Latimer offered $20 and marijuana.”
FBI Particular Agent Jennifer L. Gerega wrote in a redacted affidavit that Latimer gave the impression to be carrying a “black T-shirt with a red Spider-Man logo” in movies that authorities obtained displaying that the defendant and LaMountain enticed a minor to “engage in sexually explicit conduct.”
LaMountain, accused of raping three youngsters in Worcester County, faces a slew of counts relative to baby rape, trafficking minors, indecent assault and batter on a toddler beneath age 14, posing/exhibiting a toddler in a sexual act, amongst different offenses.
The information web site Patch spotlighted Latimer in an article in Might 2018 about him dressing up as Spider-Man and different superheroes round Boston and on the T. The story was picked up internationally by the Every day Mail.
The then teenager informed the Patch that dressing up as superheroes helped him overcome what he described as “extreme social anxiety.” “I really like bringing smiles to these kids faces,” he stated. “Ultimately [I do this] to bring joy to the kids.”
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