Perth man, 29, sentenced for 665 offenses over 11 months involving 286 victims from 20 countries

A 29-year-old Australian man, who pretended to be a teen YouTube celebrity to prey on children and young adults online, has been sentenced to 17 years in jail.

The Perth man, identified as Muhammad Zain Ul Abideen Rasheed, coerced 286 victims, including 180 children, from 20 different countries into performing sexually explicit acts on camera or video, the Australian federal police said.

    • Deceptichum@quokk.au
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      3 months ago

      Nope.

      Death penalty is for shitheap countries. Do not want that on our shores.

      • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        disagree. People who commit crimes on such a scale should not be fed&housed on public money. kill them and be done with it.

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          2 months ago

          I don’t disagree on principle - society is better with some people dead - but I don’t agree that the state should ever have that amount of power over anyone.

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          2 months ago

          But the justice system is not infallible, how many innocent people do you accept to be send to death row in order for people like this to be put to death.

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        3 months ago

        Counter question: Who wouldn’t benefit?

        Keeping someone locked up for decades doesn’t solve a problem. It hides it. Some things can not be corrected and we need to come to terms with it.

        If someone is causing such a massive problem, there ought to be a solution which isn’t letting people in the future deal with it after he is out of prison.