Facebook sex-scam US teenager convicted

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

A US teenager who blackmailed fellow students at his secondary school into having sex after using their Facebook images has been convicted.

Anthony Stancl, 19, from Wisconsin, admitted two counts of sexual assault and in return other more serious charges were dropped.

Prosecutors said he tricked boys into sending naked images of themselves, and then blackmailed the boys for sex.

Stancl, who said he had been depressed, faces up to 50 years in jail.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8427559.stm

[customerserviceguy]

1. 50 years in prison?

He's lucky that he didn't get the shit completely beaten out of him for this stunt. I guess in the old days, it would have been much more likely to have happened that way.

[WriteDown]

2. This obviously isn't a school for the gifted.....

I'm still trying to figure out why this blackmail was effective.

[izquierdista]

4. I guess there aren't enough homophobes around

Like in the "good old days".

[WriteDown]

5. Guess blackmail is okay in the "good new days?"

Imagine if these were women. They'd be calling for this guys head on a pike.

[customerserviceguy]

12. Yep, he's a rapist, nothing more

He just used a different threat than a gun or a knife.

[Zavulon]

13. He'll get that beating in prison.

He's going to be VERY popular. He deserves what's coming to him, too.

[Odin2005]

3. He better be depressed, the fucker!

[WriteDown]

6. Haha....

Yeah, I thought that was a weird justification as well.

[fascisthunter]

7. this boy is one sick sick person

if he's that manipulative, can you imagine him working on Wall Street? I can....


If you are a sociopath, there will always be a way to make lots of money, because investors need their money and only you are shallow enough to do everything it takes to make them their money without a smidge of guilt.

And people wonder why this and other countries are so messed up...

[WriteDown]

8. Wall Street?

You're lost. The Timmy Geitner announcment is down the hall. For all we know, this kid was a painter/artist.

[jmowreader]

9. He'd have to enlist in the Army to fulfill that destiny

All we really know about this asshat is he likes to play on peoples' fear of being outed to manipulate them into having sex with him.

[AlphaCentauri]

10. "posed as a girl online"

What those boy were thinking when they sent naked pictures to a girl they don't even know?

50 year in jail when other teens get 15 for a drive by shooting killing innocents.

[WriteDown]

11. Guys will do a lot of stupid things if they believe that's what a pretty girl wants. nt