Two suspects ‘in sextortion ring that drove Michigan teen to suicide’ extradited from Nigeria
Two suspects tied to an international sextortion ring that allegedly drove a Michigan high-schooler to suicide have been extradited to the US from Nigeria, officials announced Sunday — along with startling dismal statistics about similar crimes.
Jordan DeMay, 17, took his own life last year after he was allegedly targeted in an international sextortion scheme.March 25, 2022, after an Instagram account purportedly run by the three Nigerian men threatened to release explicit photos of the teen if he did not pay $1,000. “The number of sextortion cases involving children and teens being threatened and coerced into sending explicit images online has more than doubled since the pandemic,” said Acting Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Michigan Devin Kowalski.
Kowalski also told young people that there “is life after sending pictures” and urged those who may have compromising pictures of themselves on the internet to contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s “Take It Down” program. “Someone came to his bedroom at 3 in the morning and murdered him through Instagram when we were all sleeping at night, and we had zero chance to stop it.”
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