Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Jack Encarnacao
bostonherald.com

A Revere man on a federal immigration detainer was held on $75,000 cash bail today after prosecutors said he lured at least two underage girls into Internet conversations, convinced them to pose nude in photographs and had sex with a 15-year-old girl.

Geraldo DeSouza, 41, is charged with aggravated statutory rape for sexual contact with the 15-year-old, as well as posing a child in a state of nudity, photographing a person in a state of undress, and possessing a phony Massachusetts ID.

Prosecutors said DeSouza, a Brazilian national who worked as a restaurant chef in Boston, taped himself having sex with the 15-year-old and also taped Internet video chats in which he instructed at least one underage girl to strike different poses while nude. DeSouza blacked out his own face on the chats and used a false name, prosecutors said.

Assistant district attorney Christina Miller said DeSouza may face federal charges as investigators explore whether he made inappropriate contact with any other girls.

Miller said DeSouza is in the country illegally, and that federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement have placed a detainer on him.

DeSouza’s attorney, Steven Key, said his client “adamantly denies he was engaged in any type of illegal activity with a person who was underage,” and that an alleged victim led him to believe she was at least 20 years old.

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