Man arrested for sexting to a minor

September 17, 2012

WOONSOCKET — A 29-year-old man was arrested Saturday for allegedly text-messaging digital images of a male’s genitals to a 14-year-old girl, police said.
The photos allegedly sent by Dereck J. Daniel of Woonsocket were discovered by the girl’s mother while the woman examined her daughter’s cell-phone activity at police headquarters.
Daniel was taken to headquarters with the girl about 2:16 a.m. from his third-floor apartment at 277 Diamond Hill Road after neighbors reported a quarrel, said Detective Jamie Paone, a spokeswoman for the police department.

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