Anonymous ID: ffd773 May 9, 2022, 8:10 a.m. No.16240943   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

A prominent trans activist whose harrowing story of gender identity discrimination was featured in The New York Times is facing 16 felony charges related to the sexual abuse and extortion of a teen boy.

Carlos Arturo Aparicio Hernandez, 36, was charged last week with aggravated sexual extortion and six counts of forcible sodomy as first-degree felonies, and three counts of forcible sexual abuse, enticing a minor, and five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor as second-degree felonies โ โ€” all concerning the 2021 abuse of a teenage boy.

In January of last year, the 15-year-old victim accepted a friend request on Facebook from someone he was led to believe was a girl of his own age. Hernandez communicated with the boy for several months and built trust, eventually requesting nude pictures from him.

After receiving the photos, Hernandez requested to meet the victim, inviting him to a home in Taylorsville, Utah.

Hernandez then blackmailed the boy with the photos heโ€™d sent while they had been communicating before sexually assaulting him. According to court documents, Hernandez also recorded the sexual assault.

The victim told police Hernandez had also showed him sexually exploitative images of โ€œvery youngโ€ girls and told him that he had sexually abused them as well.

Upon arrest, Hernandez waived his Miranda rights and told police that he had been attracted to minors since he was young. He also said his purpose for meeting with the boy was to sexually abuse him.

According to the Salt Lake County Sheriffโ€™s Department, Hernandez was booked as a female under his legal name, but provided an alias of Raiza Daniela Aparicio Hernandez. He was also recorded as being a citizen of El Salvador.

On Sunday, May 8, a Reduxx staffer visited Hernandez at Salt Lake City Metro jail in order to confirm his identity as a prominent trans activist who was once featured in The New York Times, and even spoke at the Canon House Office Building in Washington, D.C. on LGBTQ migrants.

In his home country of El Salvador, Hernandez was active in the trans activist community and served on the Board of Directors of the Asociacion Aspidh Acoiris Trans (AAAT), a political organization which advocates for trans-identified males.

 

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