1/13/2023
A 25-year-old McHenry County man was sentenced to 19 years in prison for requesting sexually explicit images and videos of himself from a 14-year-old Massachusetts girl.
Domenique Dequon Hines of Crystal Lake was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Boston after pleading guilty in September to a charge of coercion and enticement of a minor, according to federal prosecutors.
“Less than two months after being released from prison for a child pornography offense, Mr. Hines went right back to exploiting and sexualizing children,” U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins said in a statement.
“For his own sexual gratification, he used social media to target, coerce, and threaten a 14-year-old victim. Mr. Hines is a danger to our children, and as such, he will be barred from our community for the next nearly two decades.”
Hines had been released from prison for about six weeks after serving time in Illinois for child pornography when he met the 14-year-old Massachusetts girl on Instagram in October 2020, according to prosecutors.
According to prosecutors, they exchanged phone numbers and, while communicating online, Hines confirmed with the girl that she was 14 and told her he was 23 years old.
He then forced the girl to take and send him sexually explicit images and videos of herself, and he demanded that she call him “daddy,” according to the statement.
According to authorities, Hines told the girl that if her parents tried to take her phone, she should delete all of their text messages.
“Domenique Dequon Hines is a cunning and manipulative predator who preyed on, exploited, and harmed a vulnerable child for the rest of his life.
No sentence for this man will erase the scars he left on his 14-year-old victim, and we are thinking of her and her family today,” said Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigations’ Boston Division, Joseph R. Bonavolonta.
Prosecutors said Hines was also sentenced to five years of supervised release.
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