'Just plain scary': Adult male demands girl, 14, send him nude pics, threatens to rape her, kill her and her family, cops say

An adult male demanded that a 14-year-old girl send him nude photos and threatened to rape and kill her — and kill her family — if she didn't, Florida authorities said.

What are the details?

David McGinness, 20, began talking to a 14-year-old girl on Snapchat after viewing a photograph the girl posted publicly, the Brevard County Sheriff's Office said.

Once learning his age, the girl stopped replying to McGinness — but a few months later McGinness re-engaged the victim, demanding nude photographs, the sheriff's office said.

When the victim refused, McGinness "began to make absolutely vile threats to rape and kill the victim and the victim’s family members," Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said.

"McGinness went as far as to tell the victim he knew where they lived and would be there within an hour if the victim didn’t comply," Ivey noted, adding that McGinness "demonstrated that he actually knew the victim’s address because the victim’s location services were turned on for the 'Snap Map' allowing [him] to see where the victim was."

Ivey said the girl told her parents what going on and that McGinness was arrested Thursday after Agent Stanton Wimer from the agency's Special Victims Unit "obtained an arrest warrant for his sorry carcass for electronic threats to kill, extortion, lewd or lascivious conduct, and computer solicitation of a child."

The sheriff added that "McGinness is now safely behind bars in Indian River County where he was arrested on our warrant even though he pinky promised he wasn’t going to actually hurt anyone."

Ivey added that McGinness' total bond is $76,000 and that he "will soon find his way to 'Ivey’s Iron Bar Lodge' where I’m sure he will encounter a whole different kind of social media interaction with his new cellmates and friends."

'Just plain scary'

The sheriff called the whole thing "just plain scary" and cautioned parents to monitor their children's Internet use.

"I always tell parents that there is no better time than right now to talk with their children about Internet and social media safety," Ivey said in the news release.

"As parents, we want to allow our children to enjoy life, but we also want to do everything possible to keep them safe — so if you allow your children to use social media or things connected to the internet, please routinely check all of the parental controls, privacy settings, and [take] any other measures possible to make sure that people like McGinness can’t get to them!" he said.

Ivey added to parents that they should "always remember monitoring everything they do is not an invasion of their privacy, it’s just simply keeping them safe!"

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