Teen Jock kills himself after being catfished and extorted for money by Nigerians

[quote] “Good,” Ogoshi responded in subsequent messages, according to the indictment. “Do that fast. Or I’ll make you do it. I swear to God.”

Am I evil because I read this in M3GAN’s voice?

Sorry I don't mean to sound heartless but this kid killed himself because he sent nudes to what he thought was a girl??! Is he religious? Cause surely there is more to this

Did he have “an” Onlyfans? Asking for a friend.

Yeah… I think the readers of this story are being catfished!

Can you stop posting OP? Thx

Well that's super disturbing. Damn.

The father is fat. Ewwwww.

This has been happening a lot over the last 10 years or so, it seems like there have been a few suicides every year related to kids sending nudes either to someone they know or random people they meet online.

These situations are heartbreaking...it must be ridiculously hard to grow up during this time (for a variety of reasons).

Sad. But these parents are raising very dumb kids.

I think it's probably beyond "nudes", I imagine the extortionists ask for embarrassing positions or acts so they can really fuck people over. I don't want to speculate about what they asked these kids to do, but you can imagine they goaded them to say and do things beyond the pale, and the kids do it "for love" or whatever.

Kids, the lesson here is: when they say “noodz plz” don’t send them.

I think the guy at R8 killed himself partly over his Gumby-like hair.

My son is nine and I have been talking to him for a year about the legal and social pitfalls of sexting.

In a few years he'll probably be too embarrassed to talk about such things so I am trying to lay the hell out of the groundwork now.

He was in still in high school. Remember those days when even getting a pimple made you want to hide away from the world? Just imagine someone sends all your friends nude photos of you. And some of those "friends" would probably forward the pics to other students. He would have become the joke of the school. I can understand why he felt the way he did.

I think we warn girls about this, but maybe we don't as much to warn boys. Schools should teach Internet safety as part of health class.

[quote]Schools should teach Internet safety as part of health class.

Definitely, in a rational, sane world that makes sense, R17, but we live in clown world. There are parents who don't want their kids to take sex ed. and schools that emphasize abstinence-only, do you think they'll allow questions & conversations about naked selfies?

September 2022:

[quote]The question parents are raising concerns about is titled “Selfie Suzie.” It talks about a 17-year-old girl who is asked for nude pictures of herself from her 18-year-old boyfriend. In the scenario, “Suzie” sends the pictures, but is broken up with by “Roger” who sent the nude photos to the entire school. Soon, “Suzie” begins to get bullied and called a “slut.” Eventually “Suzie” commits suicide.

R16 isn't 9 a little too young for that kind of talk?

What would the world do without Nigerians

R19, I'm not R16, but I think it's good to talk to the kid before they reach middle school and get hormonal Not only do they need to worry about adult predators, but they need to worry about bullies in their school who wouldn't hesitate to humiliate them.

The boy in that picture must have something huge in his pocket.

Meanwhile, his entire generation is opening Onlyfans accounts, pro-prostitution, anti-slut shaming, and being skanky whores. Who doesn’t have nude pix? How would this have hurt him? Was he having sex with a pet?

Minors shouldn't be sexting. They're not old enough to handle it, as this proves.

[quote] The boy in that picture must have something huge in his pocket.

Not anymore.

r19 I'm not r16 either but no, it isn't too young. Kids grow up a lot faster today than they did even 10 years ago. Having access to the internet teaches them a lot about life even if they don't quite understand it.

r16 I have one other thing you can do. My kids father was a drug addict, his father was an alcoholic, and his father was a compulsive gambler. I taught my kids, as soon as I learned that addiction was hereditary, that they should not drink, take drugs or gamble. If they did they had to watch to make sure they did it in moderation. At the same time I learned that if you tell them things you want them to learn while they sleeping not only will they hear you but it gets ingrained in them. I did that too whispering when they were sleeping that they would not want to take drugs or drink. None of my kids have an addiction to anything. They never smoked cigarettes. I have one that never tried any drug. The other 2 tried but one did nothing with it and the other I think uses pot occasionally. They rarely drink and they don't gamble.

Teaching them young is the key.

[quote] How would this have hurt him? Was he having sex with a pet?

Maybe they got him to take photos that were "a little bit gay."

He definitely would not have wanted those to get out.

In any case, it was serious enough for him to pay $100 the first time.

My heart breaks for this kid.

$100 doesn't come easy for a middle class teen, much less threats nude pics being released unless he pays THOUSANDS of dollars.

These Nigerian guys are scum, and I'm glad their government is bringing them to justice.

Was his peen shamefully small?

Probably. But anything that isn't 9" is considered tiny now.

Are you two blind?

Look at the photo in OP.

In case some of you are unable to read the Daily Beast article (because it's a pay site).

R31 it could just be a crease in his shorts.

On second thought, I think the kid had a big one.

Here's another photo of him in basketball shorts.

He had nothing to be ashamed of "down there," that's for damned sure.

"But these parents are raising very dumb kids."

Nice of you to attack the victims for being "dumb" (and also attack their parents) but say nothing about the actual perpetrators

Maybe he had an ugly dick, as discussed in another thread.

Traci Lords really needs to have a Ted Talk about being naked and underage

[quote] Maybe he had an ugly dick, as discussed in another thread.

Link to the other thread please.

For R38

R19, it is a little early, but that’s the age their friends start getting smartphones, and once those come into play, all bets are off.

Thank you, R39.

Are GoFundMe accounts de rigueur now when someone dies - like it's more affirmatively showing support than about the family needing money?

Just terrible.

Dear God, etc.

"Meanwhile, his entire generation is opening Onlyfans accounts, pro-prostitution, anti-slut shaming, and being skanky whores. Who doesn’t have nude pix?"

Plenty of kids don't have nude pics, even if more kids than ever have nude pics. And as ridiculous as it might sound - voluntarily starting an OnlyFans, voluntarily sending pics to people you actually know (gf/bf/fuck friend - that you know are real because you've interacted with them in real life), etc. - there's the naive belief that you have control. So even people who willingly send pics to certain people (even many people), might still freak out if someone threatened to send them to someone who they did not want them sent to.

[quote]DeMay died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound after the exchange.

Where did he get access to the gun?

Silly question. This is America.

This is horribly sad. The poor parents.

Makes me worry for my nephews even though they are only 4 and 6.

I’m glad I don’t have children. So many scary things with the internet. It seems overwhelming. Especially when kids are always more advanced than adults in terms of using (and hiding their use of) technology.

Respect to the parents on here. I don’t know how you do it.

WTF is with all these Nigerian scammers?

The US should crack down on these people, and ban any sort of communication coming from that country.

And yet its 2023. Did this teen ever chat LIVE with the "girl". So the Nigerians had high tech AI generating convincing girls on LIVE video?

Yup- one of the reasons I have halted dating apps is the scamming. A couple times I believed them- but quickly it was apparent that the response was a hook. Luckily I never took the bait. Along with people misrepresenting themselves, I eventually deleted the two apps I tried. OK Cupid did lead to a fun 6 month affair and now friendship- but the scammers and liars turned me off.

I can completely understand , hormone raging kids being taken in by this. Parenting these days is pretty difficult. Social media is a big black hole.

If you have netflix, watch this episode on sextortion. Very disturbing. Happens with scammers in the US too...

This just SUCKS. With the internet, parents need to get over ALL notions of sex being embarrassing or shameful. No kid should be made to feel like some of these boys and girls were made to feel. A kid should have an environment where he feels comfortable saying "Dad, I really messed up with this person I thought was a girl..." None of this religious nonsense or new puritanism, or shame. With the internet, we can't afford it anymore. Be a fucking ADULT with your kids.

Right, R53. When we became socially independent (my sister and I), my parents basically gave as a lecture - "we know we annoy you, we know we can be hard on you, but we're your parents. We'll always be there." They basically told us that if we're in a bind - no matter how bad (we lied and went to a party and got shitfaced and had sex; we did drugs; we're tied up in friends' bullshit/drama and the situation is out of control; we're somewhere we're not supposed to be and can't get home) - it didn't matter. Now that has to be extended to the internet and sex - which I think a lot of parents don't want to face because Americans are so uptight about sex. But they really have to emphasize "if this happens, we don't care how explicit the sexual images are, we don't care what they imply (like if the images suggest a non-out kid is gay); we understand it's embarrassing. We simply don't care. Tell us so we can help you."

R54 Exactly. Goddamn it, my heart BREAKS for this boy, and also for his mom and dad. I'm sure they're tortured knowing he felt he was unable to come to them. Which is why any parent should make it VERY clear- anything you're dealing with, bring it to me and we'll deal with it together. Having sent compromising pictures is NOTHING compared to your precious life. It's barely a blip.

I cry over this stuff. This has happened to many young girls too.

R53, R54 & R55 have it. If you're a parent, you have to make a choice to talk to your kids or not. The internet has forced your hand.

To decide not to talk to them or to "wait" is still a conscious choice, and it's the wrong one.

This isn't 1998 where a parent could honestly say "Oh my god I had no idea what was out there." You better be laying it all out there.

[quote]Not only do they need to worry about adult predators, but they need to worry about bullies in their school who wouldn't hesitate to humiliate them.

That's what a lot of people in this thread are missing, R21.

[quote]At age 13, Hope Witsell struggled in middle school. Not because her class work at Shields Middle School in Ruskin, Florida, was challenging, but because Hope was being bullied.

[quote]Her friend, Kyla Stich, told CNN that fellow students would "walk up to her and call her 'slut,' 'whore,' and they would sometimes, they would call her 'skank' and just be really cruel to her."

[quote]Another friend, Lexi Leber, said, "We had to make like a wall, we had people surrounding her, and she had to be in the middle because people would come by and try to hit her and push her into a locker or something.

[...]

[quote]This all started in the spring of 2009 during the last week of school.

[quote]Friends and family say Hope had "sexted" a picture of her breasts to her boyfriend. Another girl from school, they say, got her hands on the photo and sent it to students at six different schools in the area.

[quote]Before Hope could do anything to stop it, that photo had gone viral.

[…]

[quote]Still, because of that photo, Hope had become a target for 11-, 12-, and 13-year-old bullies.

[quote]But she didn't share her pain with her parents.

[quote]Even when bullies wrote horrible things about Hope on a MySpace page called the "Shields Middle School Burn Book" and started a "Hope Hater Page," the young girl kept silent.

[quote]Summer provided a bit of a break, but when the new school year began, the taunting was even worse.

[…]

[quote]"I went upstairs to go in her room and kiss her goodnight. That was when I found her. I screamed for my husband. And started doing CPR."

[quote]It was too late. Hope was already dead. She had used her favorite scarves to hang herself from her canopy bed.

[quote]The horror began when a predator took advantage of an overly trusting 12-year-old. A pedophile who stalked young girls with webcams called her “stunning, beautiful, perfect,” using the flattery to convince the child to reveal her breasts. Those few seconds of naivety set off a chain reaction that ultimately ended in Todd’s death. The man began to blackmail her — and when she refused to “put on a show” for him a year later, he e-mailed the pictures to her friends and family, eventually creating a Facebook page using her breasts as his profile picture.

[…]

[quote]While this should have resulted in outrage from Todd’s classmates over a pervert who should have been pursued and prosecuted, instead Todd was targeted by bullies as a “porn star.” Todd’s mother said that her daughter had learning difficulties, which may have played a role in the incident.

[…]

[quote]To start afresh, Todd switched schools after the first incident. But the experience had already triggered depression and an anxiety disorder. Research connects all of these problems with bullying: not only being a victim of bullying can spur depression and anxiety, but kids with mood disorders, like others who are different, are also especially likely to be targeted. […]

[quote]Then the stalker reappeared, revealing the pictures again to her new classmates, prompting another round of bullying and isolation. Once more, she moved to try to escape.

[…]

[quote]But unfortunately, now settled reasonably well in another school, Todd again trusted the wrong people. Someone she described in her video as an “old guy friend,” got in touch, convincing her to “hook up” with him when his girlfriend was away. Word got out — and soon the girlfriend, her friends and even the guy himself showed up at Todd’s new school, to administer a beating that they videotaped. Her “reputation” caught up with her all over again.

[quote]In despair, the teen drank bleach, winding up in the hospital and then getting jeered online again for the unsuccessful suicide attempt. Desperate, she posted a video detailing her ordeal. “Every day, I think, why am I here?” reads one of the white cards that she holds throughout the silent black-and-white video. “I’m stuck. What’s left of me now? Nothing stops. I have nobody.” She attempted to take her life again, and this time, she succeeded. Even now, after her death, there are taunts posted among the tributes on her memorial page.

Filthy fkin Africans running scams, ruining people’s lives. Sad.

It isn't just Nigerians, and this happens more and more. Teenagers are the perfect targets for this because they panic, tend toward melodrama, and have difficulty thinking past the moment in stressful situations.

How many times have you heard a teenage girl scream at her mother that she has ruined her life because she won't buy her a specific brand of jeans, or something along those lines. In the moment, she means it.

So you have a horny teenage boy (redundant) who was tricked into sending dick picks, and now they are being threatened. In the moment, they believe that they have destroyed their lives, and this will follow them forever. Those feelings get amplified by the scammer reinforcing that idea to get more money. It is a perfect recipe for a rash, irrevocable decision.

This absolutely needs to be part of health or other classes in school to teach kids what to watch for, to not fall for it, and not to panic if they fall victim. It is ridiculous that some false morality should prevent that type of education. It isn't about sex, it is about safety, and protecting kids.

Perfectly put^^

[Quote] How many times have you heard a teenage girl scream at her mother that she has ruined her life because she won't buy her a specific brand of jeans, or something along those lines.

Only on TV.

This is really widespread, I have a teenager and the principal sent an email home saying that several students have been in touch with the police after falling victim to this, sending money (after being blackmailed). They tell them they will publish them, send them to the police because they sent child pornography, I hope prison treats these guys in an appropriate fashion. I told my son not to fall for this- and if he does, he doesn't have to fall for their threats. He said every time he is contacted like that he ignores it- I couldn't believe he actually had already been contacted for shit like that. I would be SO screwed if I was a teenager today. I would most definitely have humiliated myself over youtube, then tik tok, and then exploited and blackmailed over snapchat. And I could barely handle being a teenager,

Really, R62? When my sister was a teenager EVERYTHING was the end of the world, and ruined her life. Every haircut was a cause for hours of weeping afterward.

Why do so many people send naked photos to someone they barely know? Why not make sure it's someone you have met in person and know on a personal basis?

I teach high school and agree that parents need to start warning their kids as early as 9. Middle schoolers of today are sexting, sending nudes, or communicating with online predators. Middle schoolers “date” or “talk to each other” and think nothing of sending nudes. Then those nudes get passed around. Most of the problems young people have today are directly or indirectly tied to social media and texting.

[quote] Sorry I don't mean to sound heartless but this kid killed himself because he sent nudes to what he thought was a girl??! Is he religious?

In many of his pics he can be seen wearing a big cross around his neck so I'm pretty sure him coming from a good christian home had something to do with his suicide.

The police should totally share his nudes with us gays, so his life wouldn't be a complete waste. I'm sure he presented his hole in the pics too (that's what catfishers usually ask for).

That little Yooper fucker had his whole life ahead of him. Stupid Nigerian princes!

Why is Nigeria pretty much the planet’s capital of scammers?

R67, if he was so religious why was he sending out nude photos ?

R70 are nude photos a sin?

I imagine he was at full attention.

Maybe we should teach kids that sharing nudes of themselves is wrong. I know there's not a lot of pushback on this in this thread, because some, or a lot, of you do it, but you're not kids. I know it's an antiquated idea but maybe teach some morality and to have some self respect and don't take your clothes off for strangers. And no, I'm a frau, TIA.

They shouldn't be sending nudes to anyone. And there are any number of reasons why it is a stupid action that can hurt them.

Maybe if they brought back gym class, with showers in gang showers, the kids could be in some ways be more in touch with what is normal NUDITY and what is prurient. 12 year olds or 15 year olds shouldn't be recording their nudity, their cunts and hard cocks. Shouldn't be sending it around digitally. If they want to get nude with a sex partner, they should go find a place and do that with no cameras. Old fashioned teen sex. Maybe a bit of romance. If they just want to get nude and show off, they can go to a gym.

The problem is they REALLY REALLY want to receive nudes, and will trade for them.

So either step it back.

Or open it up completely. Let kids send nude texts to each other with NO legal or moral consequences. Just get over the Puritanism completely.

But they are fetishising the photo more than the person. If they want to see boobs or cocks or pussies or ass - why don't they meet a potential partner and do that?

The idea that they are all alone in their rooms taking sexy shots and texting them around is sad.

And they KNOW the nudes are going to often escape into their social circles. More often than not. Yet they can't deal with live nudity it seems. Just recorded. Just digital. Weirdness.

Why kind of families are these teens from that they have not made it OK for them to be transgressive in any way? What message have they given the teens that they would kill themselves rather than be exposed to them as flawed?

Been there done that. I came out on top. No longer a victim of the Nigerian scammers.

R80 Teens exaggerate how their families and friends will react to things. And they feel pressure to conform whether it's real or not. Why do you think more people don't come out as teens? Why do they hide the fact that some of them have sex? Of course they're very susceptible to blackmail based on unaccetable behavior. Also these blackmailkers are experts at mind games and kids are still inexperienced and naive.

I was working in the Marquette, MI public school system when this happened. It was a shock to the entire community. Give the parents great credit for speaking up about their son's tragedy. It's pretty hard being a teen these days...

Younger boys get tricked in gaming apps on their smartphones. I tried to keep this short, but there's a lot of context for those who don't understand how these things happen to kids this age, or why nine is not too soon.

Most 8, 9, 10 year old boys don't have sexting on their minds, but a friend of a friend's son was groomed in the chat on a soccer game app by some adults claiming to be kids a few years older.

Over the next several weeks, they built this boy up, and the groomer asked the boy to join their private chat within the game-- at that kid's age, maybe 9 but not older than 10, it was a real honor. Once the groomer had him isolated in a private chat, they started sending him "naked pictures" of people, which the kid found really weird. Kids want to know what people look like naked, I'm sure, but at that pre-sexual age (using the term loosely), actually seeing a big adult body with pubic hair and and veiny pink and purple genitalia is gross to a lot of them-- like looking under a rock-- they want to see but they run away screaming.

Anyway, the kid thought it was weird and he told the groomer, and the groomer 'laughed it off', and would say things to the effect of "I know, it's so weird right, isn't it hilarious?!" So rather than make it an overtly sexual thing, which most kids that age wouldn't be receptive to, the groomer made it into a joke, and they acted like the images they send were just to be funny. Next thing the boy knew, more and more people were joining the chat and sharing images and talking to the boy. The boy asked who they were and the groomer said they were all friends, more 'cool kids.'

As things went on, they asked the boy to show his friends the photos they were sending him, which he did-- something like a half dozen or more kids. His friends also thought the photos were 'weird' and 'gross', and the groomers (plural at this point) just reassured the kids that they were sick and funny photos that cool people like. At some point, the groomers told the boy it would be hilarious if he pulled his pants down and had his friend take a picture of him bending over to share in the chat, which he did-- so now there's a short, GIF-length video out there floating around the internet of this kid pulling his pants down, bent over.

Luckily, before it went further, one of the friends told her mom that she had seen a photo of a naked woman on a bed on so-and-so's phone, and she was really freaked out and upset by it. The mom called the boy's mom, or maybe the elementary school, I don't remember, but piece by piece, the story came out. The cops said it happens all the time and there wasn't much they could do, and that was that. The school kept it hush-hush, too.

So the parents involved were all fairly blasé about it, everyone was relieved that was all there was to it, but you can imagine how badly it could have gone. That image-short video will be out there forever. Glad it wasn't more graphic, but given a few more weeks, who knows what they could have gotten from the boy?

So again, once a kid's friend has a phone, whether the kids are sexually-aware or not, it doesn't matter, it's time to talk. Kids take tons of pictures and videos. There are people out there who know just what to do and say to get what they want out of these kids without the kids even knowing what's going on. You postpone that talk at your kid's peril.

In addition to people literally hounding kids to death over their naked selfies (which has been covered in this thread) adolescents have been charged with manufacture and distribution of c porn, and made to register as sex offenders for decades for texting an image of THEIR OWN body to a consenting peer, so while you're at it, you may as well cover that, too.

r75 Stop it with your fantasies.

Such a tragic story. Just imagine how many other like this there are that have not become public.

Saddd

R85, do you suffer from reading comprehension problems?

[quote] The idea that they are all alone in their rooms taking sexy shots and texting them around is sad.

[quote] Saddd

She’d. What good is shitting alone in your room?

[quote]Younger boys get tricked in gaming apps on their smartphones

1) Young boys should not be on gaming apps

2) Young boys should not be given smartphones

Why not wait until kids are teenagers before allowing them to have a phone?

3) Young boys shouldn’t have penises or erections. Lord knows never had either. Still don’t.

OF COURSE make sure they understand sending out naked photos is wrong. But, also make sure that whatever happens, you are there to support him or her, and they can come to you no matter what. If this poor kid had only been able to say "Dad, I did a really dumb thing..." he'd still be alive.

FUCK this scammer. I can't wish enough bad to happen to him. Scumbag.

You’re a Libra aren’t ya darlin?

A middle school I subbed at this year had an incident. The a cheerleader sent the BB star boyfriend dirty pics and he shared them. The story got out and it was all over school. It was BB playoff time and guess who played the next week or so with no punishment.

There really isn't anything you can do about it.

R19 - kids of 5 are googling porn now. A child of 9 is already very well versed in the topics sexting and selfies from their school friends. More information is better than less information for children now so they are educated and properly aware and don't have to fill in the gaps themselves. Factual information - not information they see on the net or are told by their school friends. That's how the world is now.

Not talking about these situations leads to suicides. Lots of evidence of that.

R70, yes. Nude photos are a sin.

Kodakatheans, 7:69, thou shall enjoy images of skin, covered in cottons, woolens and silk, but to take pictures with those sacred materials gone shall smite your eyes & the spirit of those participating. To present whole, by presenting hole shall trap thy soul online, somewhere between Michigan and Nigeria. Absolution shall be found through prayer, abstinence and Venmo.

[quote]1) Young boys should not be on gaming apps

It's 2023. People don't have to be as bored as they were in the 70's.

This poor kid. I wonder if his parents asked investigators to allow them to view the photos after he died. It would be some of their last memories of him.

[quote] 'You might as well end it now': Terrorized by sextortion plot, a 17-year-old takes his life

James Woods was considering colleges and had narrowed his choices to three.

The senior from Streetsboro, Ohio, hoped to break records in the upcoming track season in his new gold-bottomed spikes.

James and his friends had a trip planned in July to Dream Con, a comic book convention in Texas.

The 17-year-old had hopes and dreams that ended on Nov. 19 when he died by suicide.

James’ death was shocking for his family and friends, who never saw signs he was depressed or upset. They soon learned, though, that James had been the silent victim of a growing cybercrime known as sextortion.

These schemes typically use social media to target young people. The victims are persuaded to share a naked photo or explicit video of themselves that is then used to extort them for money or more images.

“People need to be made aware of this evil,” Tamia Woods said in an interview at the family’s Streetsboro home. “My husband and I did everything we could. How can you regret something you didn’t know anything about?”

In the five months since James’ death, the Woods started the Do It for James Foundation and created tip cards with information on what young people can do if they fall prey to sextortion. They have spoken to numerous groups and Northeast Ohio schools and will be the featured speakers at a Mental Health and Safety Forum on May 10 at Streetsboro High School.

Alert Feds cite 'explosion' in child sextortion cases, FBI, DHS issue national public safety alert

The parents also are supporting state legislation that would require parental consent for children 16 and younger to use social media.

This is, after all, a problem that extends way beyond Streetsboro.

The FBI issued public safety alerts about sextortion in December and again in mid-January, saying law enforcement agencies had received more than 7,000 reports in the past year about the online extortion of at least 3,000 young people, most of them with boys. The FBI said more than a dozen sextortion victims have died by suicide.

Since James’ death, three other Streetsboro students have reported being victims of sextortion. One of the victims told a school official he knew what happened to James.

Tamia, 39, a clinical specialty representative for the Mayo Clinic, is pleased the word is spreading. Asked why she and her husband have been so open about their son’s death, Tamia said simply: “Because of fear. My child took his life. I never want another mom to feel the hurt I feel."

These Nigerians are sick and I hope they are prosecuted for what they put this kid and his family through.

This sounds like a job for...

Have you ever heard of Ku Klux Kneivel? Tried to jump 50 Nigerians with a steamroller.

A steamroller?

That's awful. At the time he did that, he clearly felt a great amount of shame, even though the 'scandal' would have been temporary. But I guess you don't have that kind of perspective when you're 17. Poor kid.

"All you've to do is cooperate with me and I won't expose you."

That's what one Nigerian man posing as a woman on Instagram wrote in a March 2022 message to 17-year-old Jordan DeMay before the Michigan teen took his own life.

"My son was smart. He was a good student. He was a great athlete," John DeMay, Jordan's father, told Fox News Digital. "Someone came to his bedroom at 3 in the morning and murdered him through Instagram when we were all sleeping at night, and we had zero chance to stop it."

The suspect in Jordan's death, 22-year-old Samuel Ogoshi, is one of three suspects from Lagos arrested earlier this month for allegedly hacking Instagram accounts and sexually extorting, or "sextorting," more than 100 young men online.

The FBI defines sextortion as a "serious crime" in which perpetrators threaten to expose a victim's sensitive or private information in exchange for sexually explicit material or money.

In Jordan's case, the teenager began chatting with someone he thought was a woman on Instagram under the username "dani.robertts." The account was real but had been hacked and sold to Ogoshi, who used the profile to coerce young men into sending explicit photos of themselves. He allegedly used the photos as leverage for money, according to the FBI.

"I can send this nudes to everyone and also send your nudes Until it goes viral," Ogoshi wrote in another message to DeMay, a senior football player at Marquette Senior High School, after the 17-year-old sent an explicit photo of himself.

"Just pay me rn [right now]," Ogoshi said over Instagram. "And I won't expose you."

"How much," Jordan responded.

Ogoshi demanded $1,000. Jordan sent $300, and Ogoshi threatened to expose the teenager's photo to his family and friends if he did not send more money.

Hours later, Jordan told Ogoshi that he was going to kill himself.

"Good," Ogoshi wrote. "Do that fast. Or I'll make you do it. I swear to God."

Federal authorities charged Ogoshi with causing DeMay's death.

Damn, what a waste of a handsome young man's life.

This is also a result of our puritanical culture around sex. Fat fraus are always the publicly appalled about the existence of sex. Their panic is usually pretty funny to me, but this is also the genuinely sad result.

On what would have been Jordan LeMay's 19th birthday, his mother sat down with a local reporter to talk about his life and suicide.

Such a sad story. I am still confused by what happened. If his life was so idyllic I don't understand how he could be pushed into suicide by something so inconsequential?

[quote] I don't understand how he could be pushed into suicide by something so inconsequential?

He was only 17 at the time, and at that age, EVERYTHING seems consequential. Even minor things.

Even more so, if he was being threatened with his nude photos being released to his entire school.

If it were a real threat, it would have been devastating for him.

His family is on A Current Affair now. Jordan is seen in family videos playing football and swimming in the family pool and such.

Yes, John, a steamroller.

I feel bad for youthful mr sizemeat.

Maybe these kids should stop sending nude photos. Just sayin'...

R112 You're an idiot. Just too stupid to function.

Poor kid looked so happy at R111.

Fuck those catfishing assholes for taking that away from him.

I hope they rot in hell.

R113 R112 sounds functional. On another note, I do feel bad for his mom and dad and his dad's aggressively erect nipples.

His parents speak out.

Check out the beginning of the video.

He was really hot!

The Nigerians were in court today.

Where did Jordan get the gun and ammo? Did his parents give him a gun for Christmas or his birthday?

sun-in

R118 Probably. I'm betting the parents are Trumpsters, but they probably aren't as bad as Ethan Crumbley's parents.

I'm from Upper MI and worked in this school district where this student killed himself. People hunt and fish up here, and teens who hunt have rifles. As far as the young man's suicide, I can tell you it rocked this small town community.

The field reporter at R117 had weird movements. Perhaps coke or something.

R69, I went to high school with a guy whose father divorced his mom, & ended up remarrying a Nigerian woman.

Allegedly the 2nd wife & her family ended up scamming him (the dad) out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

He despised his stepmother, & said that Nigerians are the scum of the earth. While I don’t agree with him, and challenged him on this proclamation, he defended his opinion by telling me that every single thing this woman did was transactional. He once asked her to borrow one of her cars (she had 2, bought & paid for by his father) for a week while his car was in the shop, & allegedly her response was, “If I let you borrow the car, what will I get in return?”

He said her entire family was just like her, & he was relieved that his dad finally saw her for the transactional cunt she was.

Is this a cultural thing with folks from Nigeria? I’m genuinely wondering because of all the thousands upon thousands of scams ran from this country or people from there.

How did they find the Nigerians?

R124, you honestly don’t understand how digital footprints, data analysis & international cooperation via multiple law enforcement agencies, found the perps?

Gen Z has no coping skills

Send nudes!

I wanna suck on his daddy’s titties.

I guess they’re dispensing justice. But it seems like there could be more lessons out of all this, e.g. to never reply to unsolicited messages from people you don’t know, and also to remove the stigma around nudity and sexuality. But oh well.

r125 To be fair I was also confused since I couldn't see the local Nigerian authorities actually cooperating to help hunt down and extradite scam artists. After oil exports that must be the countries main income source, it'd be like the Russians or Chinese going after piracy and copyright infringers. I guess this case made enough noise they had no choice but to go along with it.

Nigerians are BAD NEWS! In Africa they are usually the ones running the drug rings and prostitution. BAD HOMBRES!

Wow, they were actually extradited to the US to face charges.

That's awesome!!

I can't believe his Instagram is still up.

It's like a strange reminder of him.

Nigerian bros are becoming a problem...

OLD NEWS. Move on.

Such a sad story. I try to imagine how I would react at that age. Kids are typically much more open with parents than we were.

Does anyone else find it a little odd how many photos of the handsome victim they put in that Yahoo article? Some are a bit sexy.

These Nigerian scammers are beyond the scum of the earth. I can’t imagine what a hell hole Nigeria must be. Poor kid. I can only imagine those were more than just nudes but somehow very kinky acts they got him to do. Still not worth dying over. Waste of life.