The path that led Ohio prosecutors to charge Wade S. Christofferson with attempting to sexually exploit a child began a month ago, when they say a Utah father figured out the code that Christofferson had been using with his daughter.

The federal prosecutors allege Christofferson had been using this secret language to shield his sexually explicit requests of the 7-year-old girl in letters he had been sending her from Ohio for at least six months. The Utah father discovered the code on Nov. 5, prosecutors say, after he overheard a FaceTime conversation between his daughter and Christofferson and began asking them questions.

Police started investigating a week later, after the Utah man’s brother in Ohio reported that Christofferson had allegedly sexually abused his daughter, too.

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