‘This could have went really bad’: Mom speaks about 12-year-old’s alleged online interaction with sex offender
Updated Feb 05, 2021;
STATEN ISLAND N.Y. –– “The fear alone will break you as a parent.”
A level-one sex offender recently used social media in an attempt to meet up with a 12-year-old girl at the Staten Island Mall.
Ryan Behar, a New Springville resident, used an Instagram account to speak to the victim suggesting that she “lift up” her shirt and requesting that the two “meet at the mall,” according to allegations in the criminal complaint.
Fortunately, her mother stepped in before anything could happen.
Registered sex offender used Instagram to try to lure girl, 12, to mall meet up, cops allege
Updated Jan 27, 2021;
Posted Jan 27, 2021
Ryan Behar, 42, a New Springville resident, allegedly used an Instagram account to pose as a teenage boy with a different name to speak to the 12-year-old victim, according to a criminal complaint and the mother of the victim.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. A 42-year-old Staten Island man previously sentenced to three years probation and required to register as a level-one sex offender for using social media in an attempt to lure a teen girl for sex in 2018 was arrested and charged after authorities allege he tried to get a 12-year-old girl to meet him at the Staten Island Mall last week.