{"id":116786,"date":"2018-02-07T21:25:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T02:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=116786"},"modified":"2018-02-07T21:27:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T02:27:05","slug":"nyc-man-charged-sex-cash-catfishing-scheme-rape-teens-district-attorney-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/nyc-man-charged-sex-cash-catfishing-scheme-rape-teens-district-attorney-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Man Arrested in Catfishing Sex-For-Money Scheme Targeting Teens on Facebook: District Attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that a 26-year-old Prospect Park South man has been charged in two separate indictments in connection with catfishing three teenage girls into a fake \u201csex for money\u201d scheme on Facebook, videotaping himself having sex with them and threatening to post the videos online if they didn\u2019t continue to be intimate with him.<\/p>\n<p>District Attorney Gonzalez said, \u201cThis defendant is allegedly a sexual predator who targeted vulnerable young girls in a cruel scheme. Parents and social media users should be aware that there are many predators trolling the internet for victims, who are then preyed upon, and should always closely monitor online activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The District Attorney identified the defendant as Phyllip Bertrand, aka Coolen Jay, aka Teddy, 26, of Prospect Park South, Brooklyn. He was arraigned today before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun on an indictment in which he is charged with five counts of second-degree rape, five counts of third-degree rape, five counts of sexual misconduct, and endangering the welfare of a child. Last month he was arraigned on an indictment in which he is charged with two counts of first-degree rape, seven counts of third-degree rape, seven counts of sexual misconduct, three counts of use of a child in a sexual performance, five counts of promoting a sexual performance by a child, two counts of possessing a sexual performance by a child, four counts of endangering the welfare of a child, five counts of third-degree criminal sexual act, first- and second-degree coercion, three counts of use of a child in a sexual performance as a sexually motivated felony, and five counts of promoting a sexual performance by a child as a sexually motivated felony. He is being held on bail of $500,000 bond or $250,000 cash on the earlier indictment. Justice Chun set an additional bail of $100,000 bond or $50,000 cash at today\u2019s arraignment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_116787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116787\" style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116787\" src=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/phyllipbertrandarrest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/phyllipbertrandarrest.jpg 652w, https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/phyllipbertrandarrest-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WNBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The District Attorney said that the defendant allegedly approached multiple teenage girls on Facebook, pretending to be someone known as \u201cCoolen Jay\u201d and said they could make thousands of dollars (in one instance up to $20,000) by having sex with his friend, \u201cTeddy.\u201d The investigation revealed that \u201cTeddy\u201d and \u201cCoolen Jay\u201d were aliases for the defendant.<\/p>\n<p>The first victim, a 15-year-old girl, agreed to have sex with \u201cTeddy\u201d for money on multiple occasions, beginning in April 2017, but when she asked to be paid she was promised she would get the money at a later date. By September 2017 she complained that she hadn\u2019t received any money and stopped visiting \u201cTeddy.\u201d The defendant, who had allegedly been texting the victim using both personas, \u201cCoolen Jay\u201d and \u201cTeddy,\u201d then allegedly posted a video of her having sex with him online, which was sent to several of her school mates. He also allegedly posted it to a porn website. She was notified by the principal of her school and police were called.<\/p>\n<p>Upon further investigation, including a review of the defendant\u2019s social media, it is alleged, two additional victims of the same type of scheme were identified, a 15-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl, both of whom were lured by \u201cCoolen Jay\u201d to have sex with \u201cTeddy\u201d in exchange for cash. Neither girl was ever paid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that a 26-year-old Prospect Park South man has been charged in two separate indictments in connection with catfishing three teenage girls into a fake \u201csex for money\u201d scheme on Facebook, videotaping himself having sex with them and threatening to post the videos online if they didn\u2019t continue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":95240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1,54],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brooklyn Man Arrested in Catfishing Sex-For-Money Scheme Targeting Teens on Facebook: District Attorney - Breaking911<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/nyc-man-charged-sex-cash-catfishing-scheme-rape-teens-district-attorney-says\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brooklyn Man Arrested in Catfishing Sex-For-Money Scheme Targeting Teens on Facebook: District Attorney - Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that a 26-year-old Prospect Park South man has been charged in two separate indictments in connection with catfishing three teenage girls into a fake \u201csex for money\u201d scheme on Facebook, videotaping himself having sex with them and threatening to post the videos online if they didn\u2019t continue to [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/nyc-man-charged-sex-cash-catfishing-scheme-rape-teens-district-attorney-says\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-02-08T02:25:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-02-08T02:27:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/facebook.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"444\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"T. 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