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"Wisconsin Teen Gets 15 Years for Facebook Sex-Extortion Scam"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this piece from Wired.  Here are the basics: A Wisconsin teenager was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday for an extortion scheme that had him tricking male classmates into sending them nude photos of themselves, then blackmailing them with exposure if they didn?t have sex with him. In 2008, defendant Anthony Stancl, who was 18 at the time, posed as a girl on Facebook and tricked more than 30 male classmates into sending him photos of themselves.  According to court documents, authorities found 300 photos of underage males on his computer as well as video of some of the victims exposing their genitals and masturbating; some of the victims were 15 years old.... Stancl told the victims that he was an extortion victim himself and was being forced to have sex with them and photograph it in order to prevent other photos of himself from being exposed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 26, 2010 (boomark / email).