Ron Schenone

Teen Gets 15 Years For Facebook Sex Scam

Posted by on Feb 25, 2010 | 2 Comments

In what can only be described as a bazaar sexual exploitation  case, a teenage has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for blackmail. The teen posed as a girl on Facebook and was able to have 30 of his male classmates send him naked photo’s of themselves. The teen than used these pictures to blackmail the other youths for sexual favors.

Police confiscated the teens computer and found over 300 photo’s and videos of  other naked teens on his hard drive. The blackmail plot was uncovered after the local high school had received a bomb scare which led the police to investigate further. This is when the under age teenagers came forth with the blackmail scheme being perpetrated by their class mate.

The convicted teenage could of faced up to 30 years in prison.

This is a good example of how social networks can endanger our children and make them victims of sexual deviants.

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  • Joe smoe

    What law(s) did this person actually violate? And when did it become common practice to put minors in prison for so long before they become and adult?

    It sounds like I don’t have the complete story here. But what is posted, it seems that this “teen” was underage (a minor) getting other minor’s naked photos and getting them to do things that aren’t illegal. I mean when was it illegal for minors to have sex or whatever with other minors, let alone have pictures of other teens naked?

    Also, when did it become legal to further investigate matters from an assumed court order that were unrelated to the court order?

    Granted I don’t believe minors should be having sex, but it seems like it’s illegal for them to do it when they’re nearly the same age. Admittedly, this is messed up what he did, but still doesn’t seem illegal.

    • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

      Hi Joe,
      I believe the violation is called blackmail.