Step 1 – Create or login to your personal Snapchat account. Police questioned Dinh on Thursday and at the conclusion of their interview, took him to jail.Snapchat Family Centre is an in-app tool that lets parents and carers stay on top of who their teens are in contact with on the app. At one point, Dinh allegedly stated, in regard to the 13-year-old, 'But my fault if I took things too far,' the affidavit states.

At one point, Dinh is accused of telling the girl that either she was going to have sex with him or he would kill her.ĭetectives served a search warrant on the Snapchat account and found messages Dinh allegedly sent to another person talking about each victim. The girl agreed to meet with Dinh, and was sexually assaulted shortly after getting in his car, the affidavit states. Even after telling the second girl he was a male, police say Dinh lied about his age. Police said they then learned that Dinh had contacted a 13-year-old girl while posing as the first girl. Some time after, however, she was notified that her Snapchat account was being used and she learned that Dinh was the one using it, posing as her, according to detectives. The girl later left Dinh and stopped talking to him. During that time, she said she used his phone to access her social media accounts.

Dinh ended up harboring the teen, according to a police booking affidavit. The girl told police that when she was 15, she met Dinh and he convinced her to run away from home. The investigation began March 8 when South Jordan police were notified of a 16-year-old girl who had her Snapchat account hacked. SOUTH JORDAN - A South Jordan man was arrested Thursday after police say he convinced one teen girl to run away from home and later used her Snapchat account to lure a second victim whom he sexually assaulted.ĭanny Dinh, 23, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of aggravated kidnapping, child kidnapping, child rape, aggravated sexual abuse of a child, forcible sodomy, sodomy on a child, sexual exploitation of a minor and enticing a minor.