(La Porte County, IN) - A Michigan City man is accused of sending inappropriate pictures of himself to a 16-year-old girl.

 

Jeremiah Cox, 45, has been charged in La Porte Circuit Court with Dissemination of Matter Harmful to Minors.

 

According to court documents, the girl began receiving text messages and phone calls from the suspect late in the summer, the communications including verbal expressions of desire for her. 

 

The contacts became increasingly inappropriate, peaking when he texted her two very personal pictures of himself on December 3rd.

 

A short time later, she received two more similar pictures of Cox, along with heightened expressions of desire for her via a recorded phone conversation, ending with him purportedly telling her “I love you."

 

Cox was released from the La Porte County Jail on his own recognizance to await the outcome of the case, according to La Porte County Jail records.

 

He could face a six-month to 30-month sentence.