It seems child porn lovers have learned a new trick from the teenage nude picture message craze.

New York prosecutors say a man posing online as a teenage boy induced underage girls to send him nude pictures of themselves and one girl's 9-year-old sister and threatened to show the images to one girl's parents if she didn't send him more.

Philip Hawthorne was awaiting arraignment Thursday on charges including use of a child in a sexual performance. Queens prosecutors say they don't know if he has a lawyer.

Prosecutors say the 27-year-old propositioned two girls ages 13 and 14 over the last eight months.

They say he moved from his mother's house in Queens to his father's in Norwich, Conn., in May after investigators started asking questions. He was arrested July 2 in Norwich.

Hawthorne's mother won't comment. His father has no listed telephone number.

Looks like Mama's Boy upset Mama, Mama kicked his ass out... and maybe should've cooperated with investigators before another couple of kids got hurt. But that's American parenting for you (of course, if you're a parent, I'm sure you're not allowing your grown sons to molest children or anything like that... right?)

By the way, this whole "using a child in a sexual performance" thing? Does that mean if a pervert even thinks about a child to get off, they are guilty of a crime? Okay, we're not serious, but that wording sounds a little too Big Brother to us.

Via the News-Times.