FORTUNA, Calif. -- A man has been arrested on federal child pornography charges for allegedly posing as a terminally ill teenager to persuade sympathetic young girls to send him nude photos of themselves.
David Huffman, 29, of Fortuna, was arrested at his home without incident Monday night by Fortuna police. FBI agents, U.S. marshals and representatives from the Northern California Computer Crimes Task Force assisted in the arrest.
Huffman is alleged to have posed as a 17-year-old boy dying of brain cancer in Internet chat rooms to persuade a West Virginia juvenile girl to send him nude photos of herself.