According to Mahoning County Court records, a warrant has been issued for the arrest of a 37-year-old Springfield, Massachusetts man, identified as Kenneth O. Reese, of 41 Craig Dr. The warrants charge Reese with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, importuning and criminal child enticement and were issued after 42-year-old West Blvd. woman told police her juvenile son had been speaking on-line through an application called Twitch with a 38-year-old man who claimed to be a homosexual.
      The juvenile boy and the man apparently met on Jan. 1 on Twitch, according to police.
      According to Ptl. Brian Moss, “[The man] soon began telling [the boy] that he is a homosexual and likes little boys. The boy said he is not homosexual, and the man replied that was okay, he still wanted to be the boy’s friend on Twitch.”
      Then man offered-up a sob story that his parents were deceased and if the little boy unfriended him he would commit suicide, Officer Moss said, adding “[The boy] state that was the only reason he continued to talk to the [man] on Twitch.”
      According to police, sometime in June the two exchanged phone numbers and began texting each other on a daily basis, Officer Moss was told, noting the man said he would treat the little boy “like a prince” and wanted to come and meet him, that he should not tell his parents about the meeting, and adding he wanted to hold the boy’s hand and hug him.
      According to Officer Moss, the two (boy and man) arranged for the man to come to Boardman and meet at an exchange store, or in Mill Creek Park.
      Additionally, the man suggested the boy should have more freedom and should start riding his bike ‘further away’ so that he could meet him away from his house, adding he would be staying at the Red Roof Inn or Days Inn and the boy should come to his room.
      Note: The boys mother took his cell phone away, and also said she would not let her son on Twitch anymore.