{"id":1821,"date":"2026-06-25T08:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiimovinginsider.com\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:35:07","slug":"2-men-arrested-after-allegedly-using-social-media-to-entice-teen-girls-for-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiimovinginsider.com\/?p=1821","title":{"rendered":"2 men arrested after allegedly using social media to entice teen girls for sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<section>\n<p>HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Two Hawaii men are in custody in separate cases after allegedly using Snapchat to entice teenage girls for sex.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiimovinginsider.com\/?p=1819\">Roosevelt High dedicates $35M gym to serve students, community<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company has said it\u2019s doing all it can to keep predators off its platform.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors charged Jeramie Talos Arend, 43, with producing, received and distributing child pornography. Authorities said the Oahu man rented an Airbnb on Hawaii Island last year to meet up with a 15-year-old girl he met on Snapchat.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kainalu Palik, 23, of Honokaa, was arrested for allegedly using Snapchat to exchange sexually explicit messages with a 14-year-old girl over several days.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cYou post a picture and it disappears in a wee bit? That came from Snapchat. That was an original Snapchat feature,\u201d said tech expert Shawn \u201cDoc Rock\u201d Boyd, strategic partnerships director with Ecamm. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo when Instagram brought that in and more people kept doing Instagram, I think people forgot that (Snapchat) existed,\u201d Boyd added.<\/p>\n<p>The platform has reportedly been linked to hundreds of thousands of child sex crimes globally as experts say disappearing messages, location sharing and algorithm-based friend recommendations make it a tool for predators.<\/p>\n<p>However, nothing really disappears online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings can still be found and it depends on sender and receiver,\u201d said retired Honolulu deputy police chief John McCarthy. \u201cIf they\u2019re recording, if they\u2019re storing, it may be on their device. There\u2019s time stamps involved showing a link between two IP addresses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiimovinginsider.com\/?p=1817\">The Rally Point: The Rim of the Pacific Maritime Warfare Exercise begins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congress is also trying to help. Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz is pushing the \u201cKids Off Social Media Act,\u201d which would block children under 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way to protect kids is to simply delay the onset of the use of social media, which we have a perfect right to do under statutory law,\u201d Schatz said on the Senate floor last December.<\/p>\n<p>The White House is also reviewing the federal law that provides immunity to websites hosting user-generated content.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, there are apps that allow parents to monitor their kids\u2019 online use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one that\u2019s the most famous that\u2019s really incredible is Bark. But Bark is like 30 bucks a month,\u201d said Boyd. \u201cSo a parent would have to be willing to give up that much money a month so they can have a situation where they can see all conversations that happen with their young ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rule I had with my kids is, \u2018as long as you\u2019re online, I\u2019m your number one friend. I get to see what\u2019s going on.\u2019 And there should be a parental relationship that way,\u201d said McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>Snapchat\u2019s rules prohibit sexual exploitation, and the company says it uses automated and human review systems to prevent abuse. It also introduced features meant to make it harder for adult strangers to contact young people.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiimovinginsider.com\/?p=1815\">Oahu grand jury indicts 2 men in Hopaka St. shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2>Related Coverage<\/h2>\n<p>Oahu man charged in federal child porn case involving 15-year-old<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The separate cases involved the use of the app Snapchat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2 men arrested after allegedly using social media to entice teen girls for sex - 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