A 39-year-old Lake Butler man was sentenced to 90 days in jail after pleading to sharing his ex-girlfriend’s private photos on social media and threatening to print the images and “place them all over town.”
T.J. Waters pleaded to sexual cyberharassment.
In September, the victim told deputies she had ended a domestic relationship with the defendant and that he had been harassing her ever since with threatening phone calls and text messages, forcing her to change her phone number.
She then discovered that she no longer had access to her Gmail and social media accounts and realized that after vacating the residence the couple had shared, she left behind a desktop computer on which she had accessed her email and social media accounts.
The desktop was not password protected, and the victim had also hidden private photos on the computer to which the defendant now had access.
Waters disseminated the sexually explicit content and posted one such image as the victim’s profile photo on a social media account. He also changed the passwords on the victim’s accounts, preventing her from removing the photos. The defendant also threatened that he was going to print the photos and place them all over town.
The victim provided law enforcement with screenshots of incriminating messages from the defendant, in which he described the cyberharassment.
