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Region Digest: Two men charged with exploitation

HELENA, Mont.

Two men charged with exploitation

Montana authorities are seeking the extradition of two men from Georgia and Alabama accused of coercing a 10-year-old Helena boy into sending them sexually explicit videos of himself.

The Independent Record of Helena reports that Anthony Steven Rodriguez, of Moreland, Ga., and Robert Shane Wilkins, of Birmingham, Ala., are charged with conspiracy to sexually exploit children, sexual exploitation of children and distribution of child pornography.

An FBI report says the men pretended to be an 11-year-old girl sending explicit videos of herself to the boy through YouTube. The report says the boy sent images of himself in return.