The right-wing social media influencer has been suspected of pimping since at least 2018, has been caught with underage girls multiple times, and allegedly filmed himself sexually abusing a 13-year-old.
SAN FRANCISCO — If a court filing by federal prosecutors is any indication, the allegations against Ricci Wynne are even worse than previously believed.
Wynne, a right-wing social media influencer, is already facing state charges of pimping a woman in San Francisco, and a federal indictment on charges of producing child sexual abuse material of two girls. But in a court filing, prosecutors revealed the 39-year-old is also suspected of sexually abusing girls, one he met when she was 12-years-old. He allegedly sexually abused the girl on camera when she was 13.
“(Wynne’s) established track record of sexually abusing children demonstrates he should be detained,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Cheng wrote in the document. Cheng added that, after being released in a prior drug case, Wynne “almost immediately” began “contacting children as young as 12 or 13 and then sexually abusing them.”
“Evidence recently identified by investigators shows (Wynne) not only sexually abused children, but further video recorded many of his sexual acts with them,” Cheng wrote.
The document, filed in December but not previously reported, gives the public its best glimpse into the allegations against a man who has made a career as an influencer and commentator by highlighting the worst aspects of life in San Francisco. He posted a widely-viewed “Mister Rogers” parody that went viral, depicting a trash-and-graffiti filled city alleyway, and has appeared as a Fox News guest, mocking safe consumption sites and other progressive policies.
But according to federal prosecutors, while Wynne was railing against the political status quo, he was hiding dark secrets. In 2018, authorities investigated a tip that he was involved in pimping and pandering, but found evidence he advertised a “cocaine buffet” online, resulting in a federal drug case based in San Francisco.
The case ended with a request from prosecutors for a 12-year prison term, highlighting their suspicions about “human trafficking” and arguing he sold cocaine while armed, and was with a teen girl when he was arrested. The defense, though, convinced U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer to forgo jail altogether, portraying Wynne as a victim of abuse who witnessed atrocities as a child, suffers from a learning disability and tried to harm himself multiple times during his jail stay.
But after getting out of jail — and while still on supervised release — Wynne began grooming girls, prosecutors allege. He met one when she was 14, then allegedly sexually abused her when she turned 15. Police later found videos on Wynne’s electronic devices showing him “in multiple types of sex acts with a juvenile victim that appears to the officer to be in her early teens at the underdeveloped puberty stage.”
The girl, identified in court as Minor Victim 2, was later identified by a school resource officer who knows her. Police believe she was 12 when Wynne met her, and 13 when the alleged sexual abuse occurred.
All the while, Wynne was building his public persona as a reformed ex-drug dealer concerned about San Francisco’s descent into fentanyl-plagued chaos. He amassed more than 100,000 Instagram followers, mocked the city’s inability to curb homelessness and frequently posted impromptu — and sometimes confrontational — video interviews with homeless people or suspected drug addicts.
The pimping charge, which involves allegations he pandered a woman, led to a police raid that turned up $79,900 in currency, prosecutors allege.
Wynne is behind bars at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin and cannot be bailed out, records show. He is next due in court March 26, where he is set to appear in front of the same judge, Breyer, who declined to send him to prison in 2021.
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