Justin Bieber performs at Z100’s Jingle Ball in New York on Dec. 9, 2016. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters)Since 2007, a 42-year-old Australian man has been masquerading online as Canadian singer Justin Bieber — a heartthrob among tween girls — to seduce more than a hundred children around the globe into sending him lewd images, according to authorities in Queensland. Queensland police raided the man’s home in November 2016 and found he had been using Facebook and Skype to target children around the world, officials said at the time. Prosecutors told a judge in November that Chalmers’s Skype account had 123,000 conversations and 6,000 contacts that were “majority” children. Chalmers is scheduled to appear in court in April, Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.

Source: Washington Post March 09, 2017 08:33 UTC