A 45-year-old Oregon man who cyberstalked a 12-year-old YouTuber for years turned up at her Ohio home before being arrested by authorities.
Chilling body camera footage shows Timothy Nielsen, barefoot and frantic, standing outside the young woman’s home. Brunswick police told him he was trespassing on private property and he said he was on private property.as ‘just trying to get a date with a girl on the Internet’.
In the video, the girl’s father told officers that the FBI was already involved: “This guy has been harassing my 12-year-old daughter online.”
Nielsen was seen becoming aggressive and told police “twelve is too old, I was looking for a six-year-old,” while the officer told him how “disturbing” that was.
He was arrested and later charged with menacing by stalking and harassment during the horrific incident on July 28, 2022, which was captured on police body camera.
Terrifying footage shows stalker Timothy Nielsen standing outside the young woman’s home in Brunswick, Ohio, barefoot and manic.
At his trial, he was found guilty on three charges and sentenced to a maximum of four and a half years in prison.
In Ohio, molestation is defined as the act of soliciting a minor to engage in sexual activity.
He was later found guilty on three charges and sentenced to a maximum of four and a half years in prison at trial, but the young woman’s family believes the charges were “not harsh enough” and claimed they have an “emergency protection order in place.” Unified reported.
Nielsen began inappropriately communicating with the minor after watching her craft videos on YouTube when she was just six years old.
The young woman’s parents closed her social media channel and believed at the time that she was not in danger since Nielsen lived in another state, according to the media outlet.
However, Nielsen’s infatuation grew.
He searched for the minor on other platforms crecreating Fake social media accounts and pretended to be someone else. He even tried to contact the pre-teen’s friends.
Once he found out where she lived, he traveled. more than 2,300 miles from his home in Gresham, Oregon, to Brunswick, Ohio.
When he arrived in the girl’s neighborhood, he went around the block knocking on doors looking for the young woman. Concerned neighbors contacted the police and he was later arrested.
Nielsen is currently serving a 54-month sentence at Allen Correctional Institution and is eligible for parole in 2026, and the victim’s family is fearful.
A family spokesperson told the outlet that “this was not a relationship, there was no communication back and forth, there was never a connection between the two of them.”
‘He focused on her despite the protections before and after this happened.’
DailyMail.com has contacted Brunswick Police for comment.
In the video, he told police: ‘I’m here for my wife and if she doesn’t want me I’ll leave right now forever.’
He told police: “I’m not putting anyone in danger. I’m not looking for sex… maybe just a coffee date or something. Maybe just to get to know her. I’m a virgin.”
Nielsen became aggressive and started yelling, and that’s when he was handcuffed. Officers emptied his pockets and recovered several needles.
When police asked him what his name was, he first said his name was ‘Ask Little Children’ before officers were able to get him to reveal his birth name.
Nielsen told police he was homeless and a truck driver before singing about God and the Kingdom of Heaven.
In the video, he told police: “I’m here for my wife and if she doesn’t want me, I’m leaving right now forever.” He made strange movements and at one point knelt on the pavement and waved his arms in the air.
The officer told him that “the father said that they don’t want you and that you have to leave forever.”
He replied sharply, “Do not forbid him,” repeating the phrase several times before saying, “Abandon your sons, abandon your daughters, abandon your wives, do not abandon little children, I am little children.”
The police officer asked him how he knew where the girl lived and he replied “on the Internet.”
The officer, who remained professional and calm throughout, told Nielsen that what he was doing was “against the law.”
“You can’t have a relationship with a 12-year-old girl. Her father forbids it. You are not welcome on this property,” he said before asking her what her “long-term goal” is.
Nielsen said he began watching the young man on YouTube.
At one point, the officer attempted to help Nielsen by offering to put him on an RTA bus to Cleveland, where he could go to a homeless shelter.
Nielsen told police: “Five years is a long time. You don’t understand God.”
At times he stammered and said he wanted to take his life, but when questioned by police, he said he was not suicidal.
He added: “I’m living a nightmare, man. I’ve been here for five years with the same girls. I don’t date any other girls, man.”
“I’m not putting anyone in danger. I’m not looking for sex. Maybe just a coffee date or something. Maybe just to get to know her. I’m a virgin,” he said.
The policeman asked, ‘Do you think 12-year-olds drink coffee?’
Nielsen was later handcuffed. Police recovered several needles from his pocket and a small bottle of black paint that he said he uses to make “homeless” signs.
He said he did not have any drugs on him and that he had sobered up before arriving home.
Nielsen’s launch date is January 25, 2027.