Bolding Arrested For Child Solicitation
HUNTINGTON — Jordan Devon Bolding, 25, 717 E. Franklin St., Huntington, was transported from the Huntington County Jail to the Kosciusko County Jail Wednesday afternoon, April 27 on a local warrant. Bolding is being charged with child solicitation, a level 5 felony and child pornography, a level 6 felony.
Court documents filed April 14, state Winona Lake Officer John Leeper responded to a report of inappropriate communications between an adult and a juvenile female on Nov. 15, 2015.
Leeper spoke with the parent who stated he found his daughter had been communicating inappropriate sexual messages and content, by Facebook, with Bolding. Police spoke with the female who stated the communication had begun several days prior to Nov. 15. Bolding told her he was 24 and she provided a false age, suggesting she was of legal age. She stated conversations turned to a sexual nature. He also requested she send him nude photographs of herself. He had sent her nude photographs.
The juvenile admitted to police she sent numerous nude photographs and videos of herself. She told police she later told him her true age. Even after learning of her true age, Bolding still requested nude photographs.
Using a search warrant for Facebook, Leeper found all the photographs had been deleted and could not be recovered with the exception of two photographs. The account did show the number of photographs Bolding sent the female and the number of photographs she sent Bolding. A sexually related comment was also recovered from Facebook.