For about three minutes Tuesday afternoon, Weld Deputy District Attorney Arynn Clark stood before a jury and said the kind of profane, sexual words TV and radio stations face hefty fines for airing.
Greeley Tribune
Zachary Myers
From the piece of paper in her hands, she read a description of a graphic, violent sexual encounter in a clear, confident voice.
Then she looked up.
“These were not private thoughts,” she said, crumpling up the paper in her hands and slamming it to the podium in the center of the courtroom. “These were not sent to consenting adults.”
Police and prosecutors say Zachary Myers, 23, of Evans sent those messages to one of the multiple girls he is accused of exploiting through online applications. Those girls — who were between the ages of 12 and 15 — lived across the Front Range and even as far away as New Hampshire. He faced multiple counts of sexual assault of a child and sexual exploitation of a child in multiple jurisdictions. Evans police arrested Myers in March 2016 after the 14-year-old Evans girl he is charged with sexually assaulting five months prior called police. When police searched Myers’ phone, Clark said, they found a great deal of child pornography, as well as manipulative correspondences between Myers and the girls, in which he coerced them into sending him nude photos of themselves.
In many cases, Clark said, Myers told the girls he was suicidal and claimed that unless they sent him the photos, he would kill himself. He followed these messages with pictures of an arm lined with deep cuts and of himself with a gun in his mouth or to his head. Clark said Myers used this manipulative tactic to create a list of girls he could exploit.
“(He had a) plan to create a harem for himself of children on the internet that he could exploit,” Clark said. “Eight children. He wanted his harem and he went hunting, and he found young girls and he exploited them.”
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