A Virginia man is facing revenge porn charges after he allegedly sent suggestive pictures of his wife to a state lawmaker.
William Tyler Sims is accused of using his estranged wife's email account to send the pictures, pretending they were from her.
His wife was working as an intern for the unnamed General Assembly member at the time.
The 23-year-old now faces seven charges including 'harassment by computer' which could each carry a year in prison.
The Assembly member is said to have received the 'sexually suggestive messages and images of the victim' on January 17 last year.
'The images were sent using the victim's email, and they purported to have been sent by her,' a police spokesman said.
'However, an investigation by Capitol Police resulted in the discovery that the images had been sent by Sims using an email account belonging to the victim, who was Sims' estranged wife.'
Estranged husband, 23, accused of revenge porn over emails to lawmaker
William Tyler Sims (pictured), from Norfolk, Virginia, faces seven charges - each of them punishable by a year in prison and $2,500 fine - over the alleged emails to a Virginia lawmaker.
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