Former Lexington Pastor Pleads Guilty To Luring Young Boys To Send Nude Photos

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Former Lexington Pastor Pleads Guilty To Luring Young Boys To Send Nude Photos

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Daniel Leslie Mooneyham

Xin Xin Liu, News9.com

OKLAHOMA CITY -- A former Lexington youth pastor who pretended to be a woman on Facebook to lure young boys to send nude photos, pled guilty to receipt of child pornography on Friday.

According to court document, 32-year-old Daniel Leslie Mooneyham created a fake Facebook profile and pretended to be an 18-year-old blonde woman went by the name "Terri Smith". He would often send naked images of a woman to lure young boys to send naked images of themselves in return. Some of the boys went to the same church with him.

The FBI arrested Mooneyham on July 14, only a few days before he was scheduled to return to an Oklahoma youth camp with a church youth group.

Mooneyham is currently in federal custody, he will be sentenced in approximately 90 days, and faces not less than 5 years and up to 20 years in federal prison.

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