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INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis man faces more than 10 felony charges after police were notified of child porn being uploaded and shared to young girls on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Jayden Edwards, 24, was charged last month in Marion County with child exploitation and possessing child porn after Indy police were given a digital tip that CSAM had been uploaded to his X Corp (Twitter) account. He is now being held on a $40,000 cash bond.
IMPD was notified on April 4 that a local X account, "@naptownmadeejje," had uploaded purported child porn. The 45-second video reportedly showed a naked girl under the age of 12 being raped by an adult male.
Detectives then requested all files and data associated with the account, which yielded an email and several IP addresses connected to Edwards. The files provided by X Corp also reportedly included media files uploaded by the account and messages sent to other users.
In these messages, IMPD discovered that Edwards was allegedly messaging underage girls and asking if they wanted to see any "rape or [child porn] videos" accompanied with a pizza emoji. The account then sent messages discussing having sex with the underage girls.
"Pedos have big d***s baby. To force in lil girls," one conversation read. "The younger the better. Is it bad I wanna f*** that 13 yr old mouth? Ngl I wanna rape yo underage a**."
The account reportedly sent the victims child porn videos to help describe the sex acts he wanted to do and photos of a man believed to be Edwards himself were sent to one 13-year-old victim. Detectives also found conversations involving bestiality and incest.
Court documents detail how, upon investigating Edwards further, they found a Snapchat account linked to him named "yfan_jay." After receiving full data for this account, police found even more child pornography as well as videos depicting children and dogs in a sexual manner.
IMPD officers found Edwards on July 16 sitting in a 2019 silver Impala along Meridian Street and detained him after confiscating a black iPhone he was using. Edwards reportedly told officers he lives with his parents in Indy and uses the email address yfan_jay2@outlook.com.
During an interview at the police station, court documents claim Edwards admitted he had an addiction to child porn and would regularly masturbate to it. He reportedly told police he used to distribute the videos on X before his account was shut down due to a violation.
"[Edwards] continued by saying he has seen child pornography ranging from the ages of babies to teenagers," court docs read. "[Edwards] said he distributed child porn several times during chat conversations of X and Telegram and also had an unknown number of videos saved to his phone."
Edwards was charged that same day in Marion Superior Court 32 with 10 counts of child exploitation - a level 4 felony - and one count of possession of child porn - a level 5 felony.
Online court records show Edwards made an initial court appearance on July 18 and that his jury trial is scheduled to begin on Sept. 25 with Judge Mark Stoner presiding.