Police today sought other possible victims of a Reseda man arrested on suspicion of “revenge porn.”
Sergio Ortiz, 32, was arrested Sept. 1 by detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department’s West Valley Division Sex Crimes Unit, and was released six days later on bail, according to the LAPD.
“Detectives are asking for the public’s help in locating additional individuals who may have been victims of Sergio Ortiz,” according to an LAPD statement.
Ortiz was booked on suspicion of distributing a private image of intimate body parts of another” for allegedly “uploading a video of himself and the victim having sexual intercourse onto an online pornographic website,” according to the LAPD.
“The victim did not agree to her image being uploaded onto the Internet and was only made aware of the video through a co-worker,” the LAPD statement says. “The victim is suffering tremendous emotional distress and
humiliation at work, as well as among friends and family, after Ortiz posted the video of the two of them having sexual intercourse.”
Ortiz met the woman, whose name was withheld, through an online dating website, according to police.
“At some point, they mutually agreed to have sex together, and Ortiz took the victim back to his residence,” according to the LAPD statement.
“While having sex, he began to video the victim who reluctantly agreed. However, the victim told Ortiz to delete the video afterwards. After the victim severed ties with Ortiz, he uploaded a video of them having sex onto an adult website without her consent.”
According to the LAPD, the investigation “reveals that Ortiz uploaded additional pornographic videos and images of other women, all of whom have not been identified.”
“It is not known at this time whether these women consented to having these videos uploaded and made public on the Internet,” according to the LAPD.
Anyone with information on the case was urged to call detectives at (818) 374-7713 or (818) 374-7718; or (877) LAPD-247.
