By City News Service
Dec 18, 2020
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A 34-year-old Covina man is expected to plead guilty today to carrying out an online harassment campaign against two teenage girls who rejected his sexual advances.
Carl Bennington will face up to 10 years behind bars as a result of his guilty plea to two federal cyberstalking charges. However, prosecutors have agreed to recommend a prison sentence of no more than 21 months if the defendant follows all conditions of his supervised release, court papers show.
A sentencing date will be determined following his plea in Los Angeles federal court.
Prosecutors allege that from at least February 2016 through last March, Bennington repeatedly used various social media accounts to harass the victims, sending hundreds of messages threatening to commit acts of physical and sexual violence against them if they did not submit to his advances.