A Cypress man who previously worked in information technology in Seal Beach was sentenced Monday to 12 years in state prison and lifetime sex-offender registration for posing as a boy on social media to lure and molest girls. Michael Theodore Mordaunt, 47, created several Myspace and Facebook profiles using the image of a young teenage boy surfing to contact underage girls between February 2009 and January 2014, according to the Orange County district attorney's office. Prosecutors said Mordaunt had sexually explicit conversations and arranged in-person meetings with girls through social media, text messages and phone calls. Mordaunt also received sexually explicit photos from several underage girls and performed lewd acts on multiple victims, according to prosecutors. At the time of the crimes, Mordaunt was employed in Boeing Co.'s IT department in Seal Beach.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 22, 2017 00:11 UTC