Published:
28 ago 2024 21:58 GMT
The judge in the case, Amanda Burrows, said the volume of crimes was such that there was “no comparable case.” […] that could be found in Australia.”
A Western Australian district court on Tuesday sentenced a man, identified as Muhammad Zain Ul Abideen Rasheed, to 17 years in prison for sexually abusing hundreds of minors whom he contacted and assaulted online, reports say local media.
The 29-year-old man posed as a teenage YouTube star with a large following to recruit children in the country and abroad. He asked each of them for increasingly racy personal photos so he could “rate” them, and then blackmailed them into performing and filming themselves in sexual acts.
To do this, he threatened victims – some of whom were suicidal – with sending screenshots of their responses to friends and family unless they did so. sexual acts increasingly extremeincluding some involving family pets and younger siblings or children in the home.
In her ruling, Judge Amanda Burrows said the volume of offences was such that there was “no comparable case” […] “who could be found in Australia.” The attacker was convicted of a total of 665 offences, committed over an 11-month period, affecting 286 victims.
