A 43-year-old Vallejo man pleaded guilty Friday in Sacramento to sexual exploitation of a minor, a U.S. Department of Justice official said.

John Robert Remlinger entered his plea in the Robert T. Matsui Federal Courthouse, Acting U.S. Attorney Michele Beckwith said in a press statement.

According to court documents, in the summer of 2021, Remlinger contacted the minor, a girl, online, using a smartphone application called Wink, which was advertised as a service for minors to meet and befriend other minors, Beckwith noted.

Remlinger told the girl that he was 17, even though he was actually 39. She responded, accurately, that she was 13. They soon moved their conversations from Wink to another smartphone application, Snapchat.

Remlinger, using Snapchat, repeatedly demanded that the gir

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