When Victim A stopped communicating with Amin, he sent the videos to her friends and family, the indictment says. That’s what is alleged to have happened to the girl from Alaska identified in the indictment only as “Victim A,” who communicated with Amin from September to December of 2021.Īmin used a partially nude photo of Victim A that he’d gotten from another minor to coerce her into sending him nude photos that included her face, and, later, he convinced her to participate in video calls with him in which she engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to the indictment. “What that means is they will try to find all of the friends and family members and associates a child has on a social media platform or on multiple platforms, and then exploit the child by extorting them to produce more images of child exploitation by threatening to release the ones they already have to literally everyone the child knows,” Alexander said. There are 28 listed in the indictment and identified by letters of the alphabet.Īlexander, the prosecutor, said Amin allegedly had victims in at least 15 states.Īnd offenders like Amin tend to try to take advantage of a child’s understandable shame of being exploited by using threats, Alexander said. The indictment says Amin distributed the child pornography to other co-conspirators, whose names are also redacted, using the file-sharing app Dropbox.įederal prosecutors with the Department of Justice said in a statement Thursday that Amin had targeted hundreds of victims, and according to the indictment, at least one was as young as 11 years old. The indictment, which includes more than 30 aliases for Amin, all redacted, says Snapchat would shut down Amin’s accounts for violating its terms of service, but he repeatedly opened new accounts.
He then allegedly threatened to send the child pornography to the victims’ friends, family or classmates if they stopped sending photos and videos, a threat he followed through on multiple occasions.
Attorney’s Office)Ī grand jury had indicted Amin in July on 13 charges related to his alleged sexual exploitation of children through social media apps, according to a redacted version of the indictment that a judge ordered unsealed Wednesday.Īccording to the indictment, Amin posed as a teenager on Instagram to meet minors, who he convinced to send him sexually explicit photos and videos of themselves on a different social media app, Snapchat. Zobaidul Amin (The Royal Malaysian Police, courtesy of U.S.
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