

More: What we know about the 2 Sioux Falls police officers arrested on child porn chargesīut, the problem isn’t only on Kik Messenger, said Detective Mike Bunke of the Aberdeen Police Department, who emphasized that most apps on the Internet can be used for illegal activity. Schauer faces a federal charge, while Jock’s are at the state level.īoth cases involved Kik Messenger. Jock is accused of possessing child pornography on his account and distributing it to other Kik Messenger accounts, while Schauer is accused of sending messages over the app to an FBI agent posing as a 12-year-old girl. Recently, two Sioux Falls police officers, Luke Schauer and Alan Jock, were arrested on child pornography charges. The messaging app has been plagued for years by the dangers it poses to children. More: Aberdeen man receives 20 years on federal child pornography possession charge Chambers accessed hundreds of files containing child pornography on his account, according to a news release about his sentencing in federal court. The most recent example is an Aberdeen man who was sentenced to 20 years in prison relating to a federal child pornography charge.Ĭharles Chambers, 35, received the sentence as a result of activity on his Kik Messenger account.

Time and again Kik Messenger use has been mentioned in connection to recent court cases involving the sharing of files containing child pornography, and it might serve as reminder to parents of the dangers of the internet and different applications that their children might use.
