The child victims were recruited via the online platform Discord to become "slaves" to a group known as CVLT, according to court documents.
The law would give the distributor two hours to take down the reported content. "After that, an offender must pay damages of $100,000 for every two hours of online exposure." The penalty is double, or $200,000, if the victim is a minor.
The 29-year-old allegedly posted on Instagram as a teenage girl to solicit sexual photos and videos from teenage boys.
Deputies found two child car seats in the back seat of the vehicle the man drove to what he thought was going to be a rendezvous with a teen.
A man accused of leading a teenage girl into a life of prostitution less than a month before her murder pleaded guilty Tuesday to sex trafficking charges.
A Petaluma man was arrested Wednesday after a month of investigation by police. He was taken in for a series of illicit sexual acts with a minor who he met on the gay dating app Grindr.