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SOUTH KOREAN CHAT ROOM OPERATOR GETS 40 YEARS FOR BLACKMAIL. The operator of an online chat room in South Korea has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for blackmailing women, including minors, into filming sexually explicit video and selling them to others
November 26, 2020
Independent
The operator of an online chat room in South Korea was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison for blackmailing women including minors into filming sexually explicit video and selling them to others.
The Seoul Central District Court convicted Cho Ju-bin, 24, of violating the laws on protecting minors and organizing a criminal ring, court spokesman Kim Yong Chan said.
The court ruled Cho “used various methods to lure and blackmail a large number of victims into making sexually abusive contents and distributed them to many people for an extended