Florida man sentenced to 70 months in prison in sextortion scheme – FOX 17

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A man from Maitland, Florida has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for receipt of child pornography in connection with a sextortion scheme. He is 22-year-old Brandon Huu Le.According to the Department of Justice, Le used social media accounts on Snapchat to contact at least 270 girls from August 2019-December 2019. If a girl responded, Le turned the conversation to sexual topics.Le then began to escalate a series of threats, which targeted his adolescent victims’ fear and insecurities about their futures, relationships, reputations, bodies and bodily autonomy, and their safety. He also used publicly available information about the girls to bolster his threats. In some cases, he threatened his victims into turning on their Snapchat location sharing to identify where they lived.Typically, Lee threatened to publicly disclose the sexually charged conversation, unless they sent him an explicit picture. He also threatened to release the picture unless the girl sent him an explicit video, and threatened to release the video unless the girl engaged in a live video call, where she followed sexual commands that were directed by Le.Some victims begged Le to stop. At some times, parents intervened and told Le to stop. However, he
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