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From Jake Carpenter , CNN
2012-04-09T20:48:55Z CNN.com
(CNN) -- An Indiana man allegedly blackmailed teenaged boys into being his camera "slaves" by threatening to post
their videos on gay porn websites, a criminal complaint said.
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.
"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."
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.
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.
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."
© 2012 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
From Jake Carpenter , CNN
2012-04-09T20:48:55Z CNN.com
(CNN) -- An Indiana man allegedly blackmailed teenaged boys into being his camera "slaves" by threatening to post
their videos on gay porn websites, a criminal complaint said.
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.
"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."
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.
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.
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."
© 2012 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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