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Gravette Man Arrested After Exchanging Nude Photos With Teen Girl Using Facebook

GRAVETTE (KFSM) — A Gravette man was arrested Thursday (August 6) after investigators found he had exchanged nude photos with a 13-year-old girl using Fac...
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GRAVETTE (KFSM) — A Gravette man was arrested Thursday (August 6) after investigators found he had exchanged nude photos with a 13-year-old girl using Facebook messenger, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Beau Aaron Bryant, 25, was being held at the Benton County Jail and is facing charges of distributing, possessing or viewing matter depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child, engaging children in sexually explicit conduct for use in visual or print medium and sexual indecency with a child, jail records show.

Investigators were notified of Bryant’s message exchange with the teen girl by a member of the victim’s family, who found correspondence between the two and felt it was full of sexual undertones, according to the affidavit. When Benton County Sheriff’s Office deputies interviewed the girl she told them she had exchanged nude photos with Bryant after he had asked for them, the affidavit states. The victim said she had deleted the photos believing that she would get in trouble, according to the affidavit.

Investigators then interviewed Bryant, who admitted to asking for nude photos of the girl and sending her nude photos of himself in return, the affidavit states. Bryant said he deleted the pictures a short time after receiving them, but admitted that he was sexually gratified by the images, according to the affidavit. The suspect also told investigators he had never touched the victim or had sex with her, the affidavit states.

Bryant’s bond was set at $25,000, jail records show.

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