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A Lincoln, Iowa man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he attempted to groom someone who he believed was 15 years old to have sex with him.

Bryan Pittman, 31, is charged with sexual exploitation of a minor, grooming, and enticing a minor under 16.

According to a criminal complaint, he used his wife’s photos to create a fake profile named Josie on the social media platform Skout. Josie is not Pittman’s wife’s name. He used that profile to contact a spoof profile that Cedar Rapids Police investigators had created of a female subject who was listed as 18 years old on her account but who told Pittman, who was posing as Josie, that she was actually 15.

Pittman communicated with the spoof profil

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