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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

McLean High Grad Charged with Soliciting Sex From Minor

Nathan Portnoy allegedly met 12-year-old Bethesda girl online, held relationship for three months

Nathan Portnoy, a McLean High School Class of 2007 graduate and an Iraq War veteran who recently made news trying to save a Falls Church teenager electrocuted during the derecho, has been accused of having a relationship with a 12-year-old Bethesda girl online, asking to have sex with her, and then pointing a gun at her family members near a Bethesda park where the two met. Montgomery County (Md.) police said in a release last week Portnoy, 23, now a Falls Church resident, has been charged with first degree assault, kidnapping of a child under 16 and sexual solicitation of a minor in the Aug. 24 incident. According to police, Portnoy and the 12-year-old victim talked for about three months online and on the phone before the incident, and …

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