Teenager Gets 15 Years for Facebook Sex Scam
A Wisconsin teenager has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a Facebook sex scam that enabled him to sexually abuse seven of his male classmates.
The Associated Press reports that 19-year-old Anthony Stancl was accused of creating a fake Facebook profile purporting to be a teenage girl. During the period between spring of 2007 and November of 2008, Stancl used the profile to convince more than 30 of his male classmates to send him nude photos or videos. Police found more than 300 photos on Stancl's computer. Some of the photos depicted boys as young as fifteen years old.
Mr Stancl is said to have blackmailed the classmates involved by threatening to post the videos and pictures online if they did not engage in some sort of sexual activity with him. CNet cites an older AP report, which states that at least seven of the boys in Stancl's class have said they were coerced into performing sexual acts. Mr Stancl is alleged to have recorded these acts with his cell phone.
Stancl pleaded no contest to two felonies, including repeated sexual assault of a child. The AP reports that he showed no emotion when his sentence was handed down but that he apologized, saying he had learned to understand what his victims went through. He faced a maximum of 30 years in jail.
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while over hear in my part of the woods, two teachers from different school districts, one male, one female, get deferred adjudification and probation for sleeping with the students.
Pretty messed up. No one deserves to be taken advantage of like that but people need to learn that once there's a digital copy on the internet, there's no take backs.
15 years seems fair.
Lets see how he likes being the one "coerced" for the next 15 years.
If I was one of those boys I would make the the shawshank redemption and 'bite off whatever goes in my mouth'
Sad indeed and 15 years sounds fair for blackmail rape.
I don't know though, if someone threatened to show my wang online unless I perform sexual acts, looks like I'm going be seen online.
I'm with you cpt. Um show me nude or make me blow you.. Ya go ahead and post me up. I'll see you outside in the parking lot.. But the only thing you'll be getting is crowbar to the back of the head.
And I don't think his sentence is hard enough. 15 year old boys.. Come on. Line him, and all the other molesters up already and put a bullet in each and every one of them. Freaking tired of my tax money going to these bums.
LOL i bet he played wow
probably had like 100 friends that gave him stuff too cause they thought he was a hawt chick
Sounds fair to me. Rape by means of blackmail? Yeah, 15 years sounds good.
People have to learn that on the Internet men are men, women are men and children are FBI agents.
Serve him right for being a dumb ass.
I'm with you cpt. Um show me nude or make me blow you.. Ya go ahead and post me up. I'll see you outside in the parking lot.. But the only thing you'll be getting is crowbar to the back of the head. And I don't think his sentence is hard enough. 15 year old boys.. Come on. Line him, and all the other molesters up already and put a bullet in each and every one of them. Freaking tired of my tax money going to these bums.
I agree...
1 bullet is far cheaper then sending freaks to jail for ?? amount of years... there is no rehab for a person like this. He will spend the next 15 years planning his next attack when released.
I am surprised it went on as long as it did and that so many kids were involved.
I'm surprised the other boys didn't beat him up when they met for the sexual blackmail
will the catholic church hire him as consultant after he gets out?
Don't send him to jail he is 19 years old he sure as hell knew what he was doing and what the consequences are. He is never going to charge as soon as he is out he will be raping god who knows until he gets caught... again.
molesting fag... all he deserves is to die
crazy... some people get less prison time for murder. Is he 19 now, and this happened 3 years ago when he was 16?
Make him produce gay porn during his 15-year stay. Use the proceeds to setup a victim's fund.
Life's over for you kid, and at that young of an age by the time he gets out of prison my bets are he will be a repeat offender.
Stupid kid. It's not a joke. 15 yrs for you.
I don't understand why we don't have a castration policy. Rape is never about sex, it's about power. Castrate repeat offenders (predators) like that and they lose their aggressive behavior. Castrate plus 15 years sounds fair to me.
For the dudes that sent the photos over the internet...dumb move. Even if you think it is some incredibly beautiful girl that wants to see your manhood, you NEVER send that kind of stuff over the internet. That's just plain stupid. People should try to meet their Facebook friends before adding them. This is why I do not see the point in having hundreds upon hundreds of "friends" on a social networking site.
As for the wretched soul who did this, I don't really think prison is suitable. Especially if he finds enjoyment in being "coerced" by the other inmates. He's a sick freak, and it isn't easy to say this, but I don't think this dude deserves to live.
Oh and the guys that claimed they were "coerced", why??? Why would they not go to the police and get this guy's IP address tracked or something? Blackmailing of this kind is illegal right? I mean come on get some outside help or something.
I dunno, he might like it in jail.
What he did was bad, but 15 years is a bit harsh imo. People could simply have said no. Tricking a young kid is bad, yet society is as much responsible as anybody. The guys needs help not punishment. So do his victims and just about every young kid in the world.
People have to learn that on the Internet men are men, women are men and children are FBI agents.
too true
Disgusting.
At first I thought this would be another stupid sexting case where a stupid teenager sent a nude pic, but this is actually a real problem.
This is sick. 15 years sounds just about right.
If he was trying to "coerce" me into sex i would go over there beat the shit out of him break his computer, tell his mom, then beat the shit out of him again. excuse my french
that kind of blackmail only works in porn and hentai...
this here pervert will be tossin the salad doing hard time.
while over hear in my part of the woods, two teachers from different school districts, one male, one female, get deferred adjudification and probation for sleeping with the students.
You can't compare these two things. One is blackmail and rape, the other is just statutory but consensual and sometimes not even statutory. It's not really a surprise when it happens because students have crushes on teachers, not like its rare. Then there's the fact that when it's a male student with a female teacher he generally just gets high-fives from everybody and nobody cares.