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Spone targeted three underage victims who were part of the Victory Vipers traveling cheer squad based in Doylestown, investigators said. The harassment first came to the attention of police when the mother of one of the girls reported that her daughter received texts and calls from a blocked phone number. Some of the texts included photos that had been taken from the girl s social media accounts and doctored to make her appear nude, or as if she had been drinking alcohol and vaping, according to a criminal complaint. In a deepfake video altered through software to make one person appear as another the same girl was depicted to be vaping. That video, obtained by NBC s Today, was sent to the head of the Victory Vipers in an apparent effort to get the girl kicked off the team, prosecutors said. The girl and her mother were interviewed by Today. ....