I hope this predator gets the book thrown at him. I am very proud of the young man who told what was happening to him. This has helped at least 100 other boys and numerous other boys this predator would have victimized. It took courage even though I am sure he was scared. Imagine the shame that goes on with this type of crime. These boys will carry these scars the rest of their lives. Not only because of being manipulated into doing this but because this predator was a cyber bully as well.
updated 8:09 PM EDT, Mon April 9, 2012
Richard Leon Finkbiner,
39, admitted during an interrogation to victimizing at least 100 people,
mostly boys 14 to 16 years old, an FBI agent said in a sworn affidavit
made public Monday.
"You want to play this
game, or you want to be a gay porn star?" Finkbiner allegedly told one
victim when he demanded that he perform sex acts during a video Skype
call, the federal complaint said.
Finkbiner, arrested at
his Brazil, Indiana, home last Friday, is charged with sexual
exploitation of children involving two 14-year-old victims identified in
Michigan and Maryland, court documents said.
It could take months to
identify many of the victims seen in thousands of video files found on
Finkbiner's computer and other digital devices, said Timothy Horty, a
spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Indianapolis.
"These victims go into
chat rooms, develop a relationship and conversation with someone," Horty
said. Finkbiner would then capture uncoerced video of the boys, who
probably did not know they were talking to a 39-year-old man, he said.
Finkbiner would then
e-mail them a link to their own video with the threat to publish it on
gay porn sites if they did not agree to become his "cam slave."
"I'll add your name and
email so if anyone googles u they will see ur video," Finkbiner
allegedly wrote to a Michigan teen in February.
That teen complied, but after a second instance he "broke down" from stress, FBI Special Agent Ryan Barrett said.
The boy "became
emotional and hysterical, and disclosed to his brother what was
happening," Barrett said. The brother told their parents, who then
contacted the Oakland County, Michigan, Sheriff's Department, he said.
An investigator tracked the e-mail address and Skype account to Finkbiner in Indiana, the agent said.
An investigator in
Prince George's County, Maryland, was also on Finkbiner's trail for a
November exchange involving a 14-year-old boy, the complaint said.
When shown a photo of
the Maryland teen during an interrogation, Finkbiner could not recall
the boy specifically because he had "coerced the production of video and
images of so many people engaged in sexually explicit conduct that he
could not readily recognize every individual," the agent said.
A search of his e-mail
revealed instances in which one boy begged Finkbiner to leave him alone:
"I'm only a kid and this is against the law so please stop doing this I
beg you," the boy wrote.
"I wont get caught im a hacker I covered my tracks," Finkbiner allegedly replied.
If convicted on the
initial charges, Finkbiner faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in
prison. He is scheduled to appear before a federal judge in Terre Haute,
Indiana, on Wednesday.
"Our advice is never
friend an individual that you don't know personally," Horty said.
"Parents have to know who their children are communicating with on the
Internet."
Nasty yet another one caught thank god. I hope he gets what he deserves.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with you. What he did is deplorable. Rosie
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