A Las Vegas creation manager is facing charges including intersexual battle aft constabulary said helium forced a 13-year-old lad to perpetrate a enactment enactment connected him, and past forcefully performed a enactment enactment connected the lad a time later.
Gregory Chatman, 29, besides sent sexually explicit messages, photos and videos via societal media to the boy, according to a Metropolitan Police Department apprehension report.
Chatman was arrested Wednesday and faces charges of 2 counts of intersexual battle with a kid nether 14 and 1 number of lewdness with a kid nether 14. He was booked into the Clark County Detention Center and remains successful custody determination arsenic of Monday, jailhouse records show.
In aboriginal 2025, the lad joined a creation squad called “Maximum Energy,” constabulary said. There, helium met Chatman, who was a manager connected the team.
After joining the team, Chatman added the lad connected Instagram, wherever constabulary said helium posted “thirst traps” and sent pictures and videos of himself utilizing enactment toys to the alleged victim.
In June 2025, Chatman hosted a “lock in” astatine the creation workplace wherever the squad practiced, the study stated. Those events entailed members of the squad partying overnight astatine the studio. On the day of the archetypal “lock in,” constabulary said, Chatman, the lad and “a fewer different squad members” went to a McDonald’s, the alleged unfortunate recalled successful an interrogation astatine the Southern Nevada Children’s Advocacy Center.
At the McDonald’s, Chatman followed the alleged unfortunate into the bathroom, and forced a enactment enactment connected the boy, the study stated. Chatman stopped the act, constabulary said, telling the unfortunate they needed to get food, but forcefully kissed the lad earlier they near the bathroom.
Once backmost astatine the studio, the members of the squad danced into the aboriginal hours of the pursuing day. When it was clip to sleep, constabulary said, Chatman placed his mattress adjacent to the alleged victim’s, grabbed the boy’s manus and placed it connected his penis.
The alleged unfortunate woke up to everyone but Chatman having near the studio. Police said Chatman instructed the lad to travel him into his bureau astatine the studio, wherever helium forcefully performed a enactment act.
In April 2026, aft months of gathering up the courageousness to disclose the incidents to those astir him, the lad told his mother’s co-worker and her girl what had taken place, according to the apprehension report. When the victim’s parent returned from a trip, helium besides told her.
The boy’s parent aboriginal filed a constabulary report.
The study stated that the alleged unfortunate had taken pictures of the sexually explicit conversations helium had with Chatman done societal media, which continued until the constabulary study was filed.
After helium confronted with the societal media conversations, Chatman denied they were his. He besides denied ever sexually assaulting the lad and said that portion helium did big “lock ins” frequently, parents of the members of the squad were ever present.
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