Former UFC fighter Abel Trujillo is accused of sending explicit text messages and videos to a female he knew was underage.

Trujillo, 35, is alleged to have sent pictures of his genitalia and videos of him masturbating after friending a 16-year-old on Instagram and Snapchat in March 2018, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by MMA Junkie.

The alleged victim told police that she asked Trujillo to stop multiple times and blocked him. But seven months later, after she refreshed her social media accounts, he started sending more nude photos, and she went to the police.

The alleged victim told police she believed Trujillo knew she was a high school student at the time of the exchanges.

The Douglas County (Colo.) district attorney’s office has charged Trujilo with sexual exploitation of a child and obscenity to a minor, both Class 6 felonies that carry a potential sentence of 12 to 18 months in prison and a fine of $1,000 to $100,000. Trujillo on Wednesday posted a $10,000 bond and was released from Douglas County jail, where he had been since June 16.

Trujillo was due in court Thursday for a preliminary hearing, but a judge ruled the charges were not eligible. The case was bound over to district court without a preliminary hearing. Trujillo’s arraignment is set for Sept 6., which is when he can enter a plea.

Trujillo was apprehended in Florida on May 24 during an apparent traffic stop and extradited to Colorado on a warrant that had been issued for his arrest.

In an interview with an investigator from the Castle Rock Police Department, the alleged victim said she initially welcomed the exchanges with Trujillo and liked the attention because he was “a celebrity,” according to the affidavit. But she became uncomfortable after he started discussing sex and sending explicit messages, and she asked him multiple times to stop.

The alleged victim said she had several pictures of her at school and in her cheerleading outfit on Instagram. Trujillo implied he wanted to see nude photos and asked her to delete the explicit photos he’d sent, according to the affidavit.

The police investigator obtained several graphic images via email, but “due to the poor quality of the pictures” he “was unable to review them in detail.” He eventually recovered the alleged victim’s phone through her mother and were unable to find any explicit photos on Snapchat, which usually deletes messages automatically.

The alleged victim then began cooperating with police by sending Trujillo multiple text messages where she reminded him of her age. Trujillo responded that he didn’t know her age and then stopped responding. Days later, she reported another explicit image sent to her on Snapchat.

Police obtained login information on Trujillo’s Snapchat and Instagram accounts and traced it back to his residence in Thornton, Colo., which an apartment manager said was shared with Bellator fighter Carrington Banks. The investigator noted Banks did not resemble the suspect.

Snapchat declined to provide messages between Trujillo and the alleged victim, the affidavit said, and Trujillo’s identity was not “100 percent certain” from his Instagram account alone. But the investigator believed he’d matched Trujillo by comparing social media images to the messages sent to the alleged victim, and the fighter’s residence from a traffic ticket he’d received in Thornton.

After obtaining a search warrant, police entered Trujillo’s apartment on Jan. 19. The affidavit states Trujillo admitted to “multiple conversations with females under the age of 18” and admitted he knew the alleged victim was under 18. Trujillo denied Banks was involved and admitted requesting nudes from the alleged victim, as well as sending her explicit photos.

Police seized Trujillo’s phone during the search. Dozens of photographs of “nude young women” were discovered in Trujillo’s iPhone gallery, according to the affidavit. The ages of the women could not be verified, but several photos also appeared to match the nudes Trujillo allegedly sent to the victim.

In early 2019, Trujillo’s exit from the UFC was confirmed with a booking opposite against former UFC and Bellator veteran Will Brooks in Macau. He was replaced by UFC veteran Gleison Tibau for an undisclosed reason.

Trujillo twice previously has pleaded guilty to domestic abuse charges against the mother of his child in 2007 and 2009.