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A transgender convicted sex offender was sentenced to 25 years in prison after tricking underage boys into performing sex acts by showing them his fake breasts.
Joseph Downing Barnes Jr., 35, who identifies as a transgender woman, chatted online with boys as young at 10 who believed he was a woman and flashed them his chest if they exposed themselves, according to the US Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Virginia .
Barnes recorded the webcam chats and saved the files to a Google account, prosecutors said.
Joseph Downing Barnes Jr., 35, was sentenced to 25 years in prison this week.
Google notified the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) that one of its accounts had uploaded fifty files of suspected sexual abuse material, according to court documents obtained by the Post.
The company traced the account to Virginia Beach, and notified the Virginia Beach Police Department.
Investigators obtained a warrant for the email…