Pathmanathan contacted at least 145 young victims between March 2014 and his arrest on March 10, 2021, while posing as a teenage boy from New Jersey.

Throughout this sextortion scheme, he demanded victims engage in sexually explicit conduct via video chat and threatened to send recordings to their friends and family if they refused or blocked his accounts.

  • It’s called child exploitation, “sextortion” makes it sound like a Cirque du Soleil performance.

  • 12 hours

    While I like a good portmanteau, I was thinking the story was about a sexy contortionist and was thinking why that is illegal

    • 2 hours

      I don’t think they should be targeting kids either, though

  • This is WOKE LIBRUL NONSENSE and I can’t WAIT for Trump to Pardon him and Give him the Secretary Of Education job!

    -Free Thinking Alpha Wolf Americans who HATE Pedophiles!

    • Pardons aren’t free. This asshole can’t pay. And that is the only question that matters in this USA, can you pay?

    • He’s doing 12 years in Canada, and will then be sent to the US for his 33 year sentence (assuming the US still exists once the Canadians release him).

      • Did he ever actually release these videos to their friends and family? I ask because fraud experts say they never do, and if they did, no one would care, not for long, plus now you can say it’s a deep fake.

        Never pay them a cent. Laugh, then block. If you pay they will be back for more later.

      • I’m not a lawyer or judge but by my calculations, that’s still 145 life sentences too short

    • 40 years old when sentenced would make him 73 when released unless some bullshit probation/early release comes along.

    • 8 hours

      Whether rightly or wrongly, the other inmates are likely to provide that kind of service.