Perth man preyed on 180 children in ‘one of the worst’ sexual extortion cases in history
by Kate Lyons from World news | The Guardian on (#6Q915)
The 29-year-old man pretended to be a teenage social media celebrity to get sexually explicit content from hundreds of victims
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A Perth man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for coercing 286 victims, including 180 children, into performing sexually explicit acts on camera or video.
The scale of the offending, in which he targeted victims from 20 different countries, makes it one of the worst sexual extortion cases in history, the Australian federal police assistant commissioner David McLean said.
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