SAN FRANCISCO — If a court docket submitting by federal prosecutors is any indication, the allegations towards Ricci Wynne are even worse than beforehand believed.
Wynne, a 39-year-old right-wing social media influencer, is already dealing with state fees of pimping a lady in San Francisco, and a federal indictment on fees of possessing baby sexual abuse materials of two ladies. However in a court docket submitting, prosecutors revealed he’s additionally suspected of sexually abusing ladies, one who met him when she was 12, and was allegedly sexually abused by Wynne on digicam at age 13.
“(Wynne’s) established track record of sexually abusing children demonstrates he should be detained,” Assistant U.S. Lawyer Eric Cheng wrote within the doc. He added that after being launched in a previous drug case Wynne “almost immediately” started “contacting children as young as 12 or 13 and then sexually abusing them.”
“Evidence recently identified by investigators shows (Wynne) not only sexually abused children, but further video recorded many of his sexual acts with them,” Cheng added.
However in line with federal prosecutors, whereas Wynne was railing towards the political established order, he was harboring darkish secrets and techniques. In 2018, authorities investigated a tip that he was concerned in pimping and pandering, however discovered proof he marketed a “cocaine buffet” on-line, leading to a federal drug case primarily based in San Francisco.
The case ended with a request from prosecutors for a 12-year jail time period, highlighting their suspicions about “human trafficking” and arguing he bought cocaine whereas armed, and was with a teen lady when he was arrested. The protection, although, satisfied U.S. District Decide Charles Breyer to forgo jail altogether, portraying Wynne as a lifelong sufferer of abuse who witnessed atrocities as a baby, who suffers from a studying incapacity and who tried to hurt himself a number of instances throughout his jail keep.
However after getting out of jail, whereas nonetheless on supervised launch, Wynne started grooming ladies, prosecutors allege. He met one when she was 14, then allegedly sexually abused her when she turned 15. Police later discovered movies on Wynne’s digital units displaying him “in multiple types of sex acts with a juvenile victim that appears to the officer to be in her early teens at the underdeveloped puberty stage.”
The lady, recognized in court docket as Minor Sufferer 2, was later recognized by a college useful resource officer who is aware of her. Police consider she was 12 when Wynne met her, and 13 when the alleged sexual abuse occurred.
All of the whereas, Wynne was constructing his public persona as a reformed ex-drug supplier who was involved about San Francisco’s descent into fentanyl-plagued chaos. He amassed greater than 100,000 Instagram followers, mocked the town’s incapacity to curb homelessness and regularly posted impromptu video interviews, typically confrontational, with homeless individuals or suspected drug addicts.
The pimping cost, which entails allegations he pandered a lady, entails a police raid that turned up $79,900 in forex, prosecutors allege.
Wynne is behind bars at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin and can’t be bailed out, data present. He’s subsequent due in court docket March 26, the place he’s set to look in entrance of the identical choose, Breyer, who declined to ship him to jail in 2021.
Initially Printed: March 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM PDT
