Kadence Kristine Pinder, 24, born Nelson Christopher Pinder, a popular YouTube star and daycare worker who cares for children from their home, has been arrested and charged with possessing child pornography and child abuse images. Police also arrested Pinder’s boyfriend, 29-year-old Marcus Strebel, for the same charges.
Pinder was initially questioned by police after Google filed a CyberTip claiming the transgendered individual used their services to host child pornography. Initially, Pinder claimed that they did not have child pornography in their possession, and blamed her boyfriend, Strebel, who Pinder says had access to the Google account. Police say the investigation into Pinder began in 2019 with Google’s complaint.
After being confronted, Pinder told police that while the couple found individuals who appeared to be young while browsing for pornography on the popular social media site Tumblr – which allegedly banned pornography from the site years ago – they would only have accidentally downloaded images of underage individuals.
When police initially contacted the couple, they voluntarily offered to let police examine their cell phones to determine if they contained child pornography. The couple went inside their home, from which they offer daycare services to small children, but after 30 minutes reappeared and declined to show police their phones. After police obtained a warrant, they say they found 125 images depicting child pornography on Pinder’s phone.