Gainesville man arrested on child pornography charges reportedly said he might have a second personality

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Vern Asa Most, Jr., 24, was arrested yesterday and charged with ten felonies after officers investigated a tip about transmission of child sexual abuse videos.

The tip that two videos had been uploaded to Kik and sent to others in a private chat was received by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on September 10 and passed on to Gainesville Police Department (GPD).

A GPD detective reported that one video was about 2 minutes long and was a compilation of 17 different scenes, most of which showed a pre-pubescent female engaging in some form of sexual activity with adult males and an adult female.

The login IP address belonged to a residential internet account in Gainesville, and a check of residents of that apartment reportedly found that Most lives there; Most’s phone number was also associated with the Google email account that was used to create the Kik account.

A search warrant was executed at the apartment on November 13, and officers made contact with Most and two other residents; Most reportedly said he had two cell phones but only remembered one phone number–the same phone number that was used to create the Google account associated with the Kik account. Most also reportedly provided two email addresses, one of which was used to create the Kik account.

Most reportedly told the officer that he had realized the previous night that there was child sexual abuse material saved to his phone, but he didn’t know how it got there; he said someone must have hacked into his cell phone and saved that content to his cell phone gallery. He also reportedly said someone must have hacked his Kik account because he discovered that he is in multiple child pornography chats. Most said users must provide a “live” picture to be admitted into those chats, so, according to the arrest report, he “must have taken a live picture and at the same time, the hacker took the photograph and provided it to the child pornogaphy chat group admin.”

Most reportedly also said that he had discovered the previous night that someone had hacked his Discord account and was actively chatting with an underage minor male, asking the minor for child sexual abuse material.

Most later reportedly said he was probably the person who distributed child sexual abuse material on Kik and chatted with the minor on Discord, but he’d realized he might have a second personality because he doesn’t remember those interactions.

A search of Most’s phone reportedly showed that it was logged into the Kik account listed in the tip and also showed an active chat on Discord with a person who said he was a minor; Most allegedly solicited child sexual abuse material from the minor and sent a nude photo to the minor in that chat. A search of the second phone reportedly found five child sexual abuse videos, including the one reported in the tip.

Most has been charged with distribution of child pornography, transmission of harmful material to a minor, soliciting a minor to engage in unlawful sexual contact, unlawful use of a two-way communication device, and six counts of possession of child pornography.

Most has no local criminal history; Judge Susan Miller-Jones set bail at $300,000.

Articles about arrests are based on reports from law enforcement agencies. The charges listed are taken from the arrest report and/or court records and are only accusations. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. 

  • Thank you for going after these sick predators in our community. The damage to these children could and often is for life. Hopefully, the DA and Court system will do their job.

  • Well then….if he has two personalities I think both of them should receive a separate jail sentence and he can serve them both.

    • What does “woke” have to do with this? As much as you might like to pretend otherwise, sexual predators exist from the far right to the far left and everything in between.

      Stop furthering the efforts to separate our nation. This is a problem that transcends political party or ideology, don’t minimize it by turning into some kind of fight against “woke.”

  • Yes he has two different personalities for sure. One is his “free” personality where he can go wherever he may and live amongst society. The other is his “locked up” personality, where he sleeps on a concrete slab and is behind bars and a chained link fence 24/7. He’s going to get to know his latter personality very well.

  • You all don’t even know anything, this person is Autistic, has adhd, bipolar and a panic disorder, and he’s only accused he could’ve been set by a vengeful piece of crap

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