Sentenced to 33 Years in U.S. Federal Prison for Sextortion Scheme Targeting 145+ American Children

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Extradited Foreign National from Toronto — Sentenced to 33 Years in U.S. Federal Prison for Sextortion Scheme Targeting 145+ American Children

Ramanan Pathmanathan, a 40-year-old Canadian citizen living in Toronto, Canada, ran a years-long online sextortion operation posing as a teenage boy on Instagram and Facebook Messenger to contact and groom more than 145 children (girls and boys, some as young as 6) across the United States.

He coerced the minors into performing sexual acts on video calls, recorded the abuse to produce child pornography, and then blackmailed them by threatening to distribute the material to their families and friends unless they sent more explicit content.

He was previously convicted in Canada on similar charges involving eight victims and sentenced to 12 years there.

Today, he was sentenced to 33 years in federal prison, to run consecutively with his Canadian term, plus 10 years of supervised release and sex-offender registration.

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Ramanan Pathmanathan, this foreign child predator will cost the American taxpayer now

~$55,000 per year (approx. $150/day housing/feeding)
~$1.8 million total for 33 years (plus medical costs)

A very large percentage of the American prison population consists of migrants.

This is not very cost affective.

Woodchippers are very cost affective.