HOUSE SPRINGS, Mo. – A Missouri man who threatened to kill top employees at Google, YouTube and Twitter, along with Democrats, was found to have a child-sized sex doll and a large collection of child porn during an FBI raid of his home, authorities said.
Matthew Bryan Thilges, 56, of House Springs, is charged with attempted production of child pornography and receipt of child pornography, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He pleaded not guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis.
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According to Thilges’ indictment, he attempted to get a minor female, identified only as “J,” to engage in sexually explicit conduct. Thilges attempted to produce images of the girl in a “lascivious display” of her genitals.
“(Thilges) took photographs of ‘J’ partially undressed in an attempt to photograph her genitals and/or anus, and such depictions were produced using materials that had been mailed, shipped or transported in interstate and foreign commerce, i.e., a cell phone,” the court document states.
Thilges also knowingly received sexually explicit videos and images of child pornography over the internet, including a “graphic video file depicting a minor prepubescent male child’s genitals being touched by a female” and a video of a young girl performing oral sex.
A third image was “a graphic image file that depicts a minor prepubescent female in a three-picture collage where the minor female is depicted standing in front of the camera in a lascivious display of her genitals and with a penis in her mouth,” the indictment states.
The Post-Dispatch reported that Thilges first came under scrutiny in July, when he began making threats against tech employees in comments he made on YouTube.
Thilges said he wanted to “stick a sword right through” YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and said Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, “must die,” according to a criminal affidavit obtained by the paper.
He began using email addresses using the phrases “jackisaterrorist” and “guugleisfascistpig,” FBI Special Agent Kyle Storm wrote in the affidavit.
Read Thilges’ indictment below.
Matthew Bryan Thilges Indic… by National Content Desk
In a motion asking a judge to keep Thilges locked up pending trial, federal prosecutors pointed to the plethora of threats Thilges allegedly made online since the summer. In one July 13 post, he wrote, “(Expletive) the government. Kill ALL democrats. Start at Alphabet/Google/YouTube. KILL THEM ALL!”
“Make the world a better place, shoot a Democrat in the face,” he wrote that same day. “I have dibs on EVERY Alphabet/Google/YouTube employee. You guys can start wherever you want.”
The threats continued into the fall. On Oct. 1, Thilges threatened law enforcement officers.
“If a cop, ANY cop, shows up at your door WITHOUT a warrant and attempts to KIDNAP you or any member of your family , you are not only entitled to shoot it in the face, you are OBLIGATED to do so as an American citizen, he wrote, according to the court document.
On Oct. 4: “No more talk. Just shoot. Shoot to kill. Anywhere and everywhere. I am a staunch vehement conservative libertarian and I have absolutely had enough of government thugs and government bureaucrats,” he wrote. “They ALL need to DIE right along with (Black Lives Matter), Antifa and EVERY member of the communist Democrat party of America.”
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Two days later, he wrote that every employee of Alphabet, Google and YouTube should be put to death for “sedition, subversion, insurrection, treason and crimes against humanity.”
That same day, Oct. 6, he wrote that “Democrat children are easier to shoot than democrat ‘parents. They’re not as fast.”
The following day, he wrote, “If government employees murdered your business, you have the right to murder the government employees. Call me. I will help you do that.”
On Oct. 19, “due to the escalating nature of the threats,” the FBI obtained a search warrant for Thilges mobile home. Agents who conducted the search two days later found eight assault rifles, a pistol and two loaded 100-round drum magazines.
Read the motion for Thilges’ detention below.
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They also found a tactical vest, three loaded pistol magazines and four loaded rifle magazines, the court document states.
It was during the raid that they discovered photos of a partially-nude child on Thilges’ cellphone, authorities said. She appeared to be asleep on Thilges’ couch.
His Acer laptop held thousands of deleted images of graphic child porn.
Another disturbing find was the “child-like sex doll” standing in Thilges bedroom closet, the Post-Dispatch reported.
The judge ultimately determined that Thilges should be held in jail pending his trial.
Thilges was arrested Oct. 26, court records show. He was indicted Nov. 5 on the child porn charges.
