Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - 'Looksmaxxer' Influencer Hit With Child Porn Charge

Episode Date: May 11, 2026

Mason "Hullo" Hull, 18, is a self-proclaimed "looksmaxxer" influencer who lives in Florida. He's now facing 15 felony charges related to child sex abuse materials or CSAM. Hull's former girlfriend called the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office after she said she found disturbing images on Hull's phone. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy goes through the case in this episode of Crime Fix — a daily show covering the biggest stories in crime.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW: Download the FREE Upside App at https://upside.app.link/crimefix to get an extra 25 cents bonus for every gallon on your first tank of gas.Host:Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5CRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Daniel CamachoGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mason, no more child phone, right? Last time? Okay. Mason Hall's friend posted that video on TikTok. Now the looks maxer influencer is in very hot water with detectives. I'll tell you how and why. I'm Ann Janette Levy and this is crime fix. One of the reasons that I can tell you about really disturbing cases like this one is because we have really great partners and one of those partners is upside. Upside is. an app that will help you get cash back on things that you buy all of the time like carry out gas and groceries. Here's how it works. You download Upsides free app. You claim an offer at one of the locations that they use and pay with your credit card. Verify the purchase and then just like that, you see your cashback in the app. So say I want pizza one night. I'll search Upsides offers.

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look at him, detectives in Sarasota County, Florida, say there are things that Mason Hall has been looking at that are illegal, involving children, and he's now facing a long list of felony charges. So let's start at the beginning. Back on April 30th, Sarasota County Deputy. say they got a call about Mason Hall and a claim that he had very disturbing photos of young girls on his phone. Not a good look for anyone, much less a so-called looksmaxer influencer on TikTok where he has more than 300,000 followers. That account is now private. Looksmaxers like Mason Hall do extreme things like not eating to make themselves look as attractive as possible. Court documents say that detectives got a call from Hall's girlfriend, Livia Coon, and she's actually

been posting about this on her TikTok account. An arrest warrant states, Coon advised that she and Hall have been in a romantic relationship for approximately eight months. Over the past several weeks, she stated that she had the inclination. Hall had been cheating on her. On the morning of 430, 2026, she decided to go through Hall's cell phone while he was sleeping. Coon advised while looking through his phone, she found an application on the device, Telegram, which appeared to have been recently used. Now, in case you didn't know, Telegram is an encrypted app that people use to communicate and to trade things, and not everything that goes on on Telegram is good. In fact, people use it to exchange child sex abuse material. Now, not all users, of course, but you can see where I'm going

with this. The warrant continues. Inside the Telegram application, Kuna advised she discovered several chat messages where Hall is communicating with several different people, the content of those messages, including dialogue where Hall is sending confirmation of payment in exchange for child pornography. Coon, using her own phone, took photos of some of the messages. She advised she viewed links and photos slash videos within the chats that contain child pornography. Coon provided the screenshots to deputies. Now, this clearly is not good for Mason's. Hall. This is a guy who's clearly obsessed with his appearance and his image and being accused of possessing child sex abuse material would not only be bad for his image. It's illegal. It's sick.

And the videos that detectives describe in the arrest warrant show young girls being sexually assaulted. It's very disturbing. Meanwhile, Olivia Coon posted a snippet of a phone call she recorded with Mason Hall on her TikTok where she confronted him. Take a listen. girls because I'm not enough for you. I know. And after it happened, I was, I was guilty. No. You had bought in so much.

You spent. Over that audio, there's a post from Hall's social media where he wrote, no stress. Coincidence that she's overly pushing to get this out on social media after us separating. Easiest way to spread, misled information is online, and therefore, I will. release with a video on my behalf. With time, the truth will reveal itself. Stay tuned. Livia then typed. We separated because of him anyways. Now, that's a lot of drama on TikTok, but this is very serious. So the detective said they tried to set up a call between Livia and Mason where they listened in. The detective said Mason Hall was reluctant to speak because he didn't know if he was being recorded,

and he told Livia Coon, they'd already talked about this earlier in the day. So the detective, did the next best thing. They went to Mason Hall to talk to him themselves. So to pick up the story from there, I want to bring in Joe Tamborino. He is a criminal defense attorney who practices in Minnesota, but he has represented clients in child sex abuse material cases before. Joe, this case to me is pretty interesting. And I want to get to where the detectives said they went and talked to Mason Hall. And I would have put this up on the screen for the viewers. The detectives wrote, you're affiant, responded to Mason Hall's residence. After Kuhn's interview, Hall answered the door and stated he would speak to me regarding the incident. He was read as

Miranda warnings. He waved and agreed to speak with me. This is a summary of the interview. It's not verbatim. Hall advised he had been using the telegram application on his cell phone to access child pornography. He stated he recently decided to try something new and sought out a type of pornography that was taboo. He stated there were at least two separate occasions in which he spent money to be provided with links to child pornography. Oh my gosh. How much trouble is Mason Hall in? Well, thank you for having me on. Quite a bit of trouble because, you know, he's being prosecuted in Florida. And I'm not licensed in Florida, but I do know some of the penalties they have down there for certain types of crimes like this. And a person in his position is either going to face at a basically

a minimum up to five years in prison. And that's for your very, let's say, non-graphic, non-violent type of material. However, if there are aggravating circumstances, which this case might have, you could go up to 15 years in prison. So he's in quite a bit of a jam. Quite a bit of a jam, I think. I mean, the fact that the girlfriend, or I guess the ex-girlfriend, and they separated. She had this suspicion that something was going on. And she went into the phone. This is all according to the detectives. And she later posts about this on TikTok. She takes pictures of what she finds. She shows it to the cops. And then he makes this admission. I mean, this is, he's going to have a tough, you know, road to hoe here, isn't he?

As far as, and his attorney, I guess. If you're the defense attorney, as long as his rights weren't violated, it's going to be pretty difficult for him. extremely difficult because, you know, your right to privacy and your right against unreasonable searches and seizures is only between you and the government. It's not between you and your girlfriend or buddy or mom or dad. So if someone grabs your phone, say your mom grabs your phone and looks in it and sees some type of illegal material, she can turn you in. Anybody can do that. It's not the government that's doing the search, but rather the person that grabbed your phone. Now, after the government gets the report, well, then, of course, they dot the eyes and cross the T's and get a search warrant, as they did in this case.

So they have the ex-girlfriend's material, what she said, which is good for the prosecution. Then they get a search warrant, which is good for the prosecution. And then they go to the suspect, Mr. Hull himself, and he admits, which is very good for the prosecution. for the prosecution. So, you know, this is a very difficult case if what the materials we know so far say is true. I want to go back to what you talked about earlier. You mentioned the possibility of aggravating factors. And right now, the law enforcement investigating this case, I mean, he was arrested on May 6th. This is like seven days after they first get the April 30th call. about this and he was arrested on a warrant.

But we know that a lot of times after, you know, the initial investigation and then the case goes to a grand jury, they'll get a warrant for the phone. They'll do a deeper dive on the phone, if you will, and sometimes they find a lot more. What could those aggravating factors be as far as child sex abuse materials goes? The victims were between the ages of eight and 15.

That's what they're saying right now, or at least the children featured this material? Well, the aggravating factors, usually there are few of them that come into play in almost all of these cases, or there are considerations of them in almost all of these cases. First is the actual nature of the violation. And what I mean by that is if the material is particularly graphic and shows an actual rape and the child is suffering, the child is crying, the child is obviously in distress, that's going to be an aggravating factor. Another factor, another fact is, could be the voluminous amounts of material.

Perhaps they start off the case thinking there's a handful of images, but really there's about 600 or a thousand images, so that could come into play. Another one could be is the person actually assisting in the manufacture of the images? That doesn't appear in this case that we know of so far, but that could come into play. And also what could happen is if there are, say, videos that are quite lengthy,

Because many times what prosecutors will look at is if there's a video of the case, that's considered more aggravating than a still photo. And if there is a video, how long is the video? How long did the child suffer? So there's all these different considerations as to whether or not you're going to use aggravating factors to suffice it to say up the charge or up the penalty. I feel like more and more we're seeing telegram in these investigations, that encrypted app coming up in these investigations. I just covered one last week where a man is accused of trading this stuff on Telegram.

Have you seen that come up in the cases where you've represented defendants? And how concerned should we be about these encrypted apps and the fact that the people or the companies who are operating these apps have people swapping this stuff on there? I mean, it just seems like it seems like there. there should be some responsibility on the part of the companies that own these platforms. They've got to know this stuff is being traded and sold on their platforms. You bring up a fantastic issue, an issue that Congress is just beginning to consider, and that is whether any internet company, whether it's meta or Instagram or SNAT,

whatever the company is, should be liable, civilized. liable under the Federal Communications Act. Because right now under Section 230 of the Federal Communications Act, the amended Act from 1996, in most situations, they're not liable. What you said is absolutely true. They could have all these terrible materials being transferred to people back and forth and you can't sue the Internet company. If Congress changes that and if Congress allows trial attorneys to go after these companies because they, can see, or presumably they can see what these materials are, you would see a complete, almost complete shutdown. Think of what trial attorneys have helped in the past. I mean, that's why there are kill switches on lawnmowers. That's why there's infrared detection on garage door openers. That's why there's airbags. All of these things for public safety have been pushed and accomplished because of trial attorneys. I can almost guarantee that if Congress changes that law and allows lawsuits based on whether

or not these companies can see that this kind of material is being transferred, it would almost be shut down overnight because these companies are not going to want to lose billions of dollars. But, you know, there are companies right now that do, something happens and they realize this material is being transmitted. and they do pass along the information to places like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. I mean, I've covered cases where that happens where I don't, I guess, like Google, I think, has turned stuff over to Nick Mick, and then Nick Fivores it on to law enforcement, and they're like, you should look into this. I mean, there are ways for this to be detected, and I'm thinking if I own Telegram, I'm not sure, or if I'm on the Board of Directors.

of Telegram, even if I can't be sued right now, I'm not really wanting my app to be known as the place where people are trading child porn. I mean, it's kind of, that's disgusting. Like, what is going on? I mean, it just seems like insane to me. And I know some of these places have like, you know, operators overseas and things like that. But it doesn't it seem insane? It does. But I'm not talking about Google or whoever the company is reporting this. They do report it. I have had many cases where different companies have reported this material. That's not the issue. It's good that they're reporting it. What I'm talking about is stopping it from even happening, that if, especially the world we live in now with AI technology, I would imagine there are certain tools that any internet company could use to filter

to see if this kind of material is coming through. And if it is, stop it before it gets anywhere. Stop it before anybody could transfer it. That's what I'm talking about. Right now, do companies report it to the police or authorities? Yes, they absolutely do, as they should. But what I'm talking about is stopping it from even being transferred. Mason Hall's girlfriend, how important was that?

I mean, you're a defense attorney. So you represent people in court and make sure their rights aren't violated and that their rights are enforced. but how important was that in this case because she she had a gut feeling that something was off. She thought he was cheating on her. Right. And then she looks in the phone. She goes snooping in the phone because she thought he was cheating. And then she finds this.

I'm just like thinking to myself. Talk about trusting your gut. Exactly. And again, like I mentioned before, there's nothing illegal about that in terms of of the government's actions. If you snooped on your neighbor's phone because say you were having your neighbor over for dinner and you just happen to grab their phone and see some contraband on it and you reported them, there's no government intervention there. The government didn't do anything. You are given the government information. Now, could your neighbor somehow maybe sue you for some

violation? It depends on the state that you live in, but that's not the issue. The issue is can the government use that information in prosecuting you. And yes, they can. Yeah, I just hate to think of how this could have progressed potentially had she not seen that because there's also a TikTok of one of his friends saying, you know, many days ago posting this video where they're like, you're not going to do this anymore, right, Mason, no more child porn. I mean, this case is beyond me. and he's 18. So it's like what's been going on with this kid that this is what he's into. And he calls it something new and something taboo. This isn't something new. It's illegal. Yes, it's very illegal. It's kryptonite. You cannot have it. By having it, it's automatically illegal.

I mean, technically, though, I'm sure the ex-girlfriend is not in any legal trouble. if you found this kind of material on like I said your friend's phone and you took a picture of that and you stored that illegal image in your phone you too could be liable but obviously there's discretion and prosecution and you're not going to prosecute people who do that in order to report to the police sure it's just this is really something well judge tamburino thank you for your time and as always and your expertise thank you have a good day Mason Hall posted his $112,000 bail with the help of a bail bonds company. He's not allowed to have access to social media as a condition of his bail,

and he'll be back in court in early June. So stay tuned. There will be more to come. And that's it for this episode of Crime Fix. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. Thanks so much for being with me. I'll see you back here next time.