Joran z michiganu He was only 17 years old when two brothers blackmailed him and applied for $ 1000 (in conversion of € 870) and then urged him to suicidewrites the portal.
In March 2022, Samuel and Samson Ogoshi who now have something in twenty, to Instagram pretended to be an interesting woman, where they asked naked photos of Jordan. After the young man sent them intimate photos, his brothers threatened.
Jordan’s mother Jennifer Buta has a strong memory of her son. V The early morning hours of the fateful morning got a text message from Jordan, in which he wrote “Mom, I love you”. At that time, she assumed that it was nothing more than a nice sentence from her teenage son, and later revealed the overwhelming truth.
“Every day I live with the sadness of losing my son and just wish to come to me or to my father and told me what happened. We miss every day. Jordan’s late night text message was the last goodbye, ”she said.
Sexual blackmail involves persuasion of a person to send explicit photos online, and subsequent threatening by publishingunless the victim pays money or does not engage in sexual services. Jennifer insists that young people have to learn about these dangers, and She called on her parents to talk to their children.
Obligatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum sentence of 30 years. They were last year Samuel and Samson Ogoshi convictions to 17 and a half years of imprisonment after confessing to sexual blackmail not only Jordan, but also other teenage boys and young men in the United States.
Siblings were accused of being They led Jordan to send his naked photo and then blackmail him. “I have a screenshot. I can send these naked photos to everyone and I will also send them to your family and friends until they become viral. All you have to do is work with me and I won’t reveal you. Will you work with me? Just pay me and I will not reveal you”Wrote Jordan’s brothers under the false name of Dani Roberts.
Jordan asked how much he should pay. For what the brothers wrote to him that he would buy confidentiality for $ 1000 (870 euros). After Jordan paid $ 300 (equivalent to 261 euros), Samuel Ogoshi continued to threaten.
“See you. Enjoy your miserable life,” The brothers wrote to him. This led Jordan to writing a devastating message. “I will kill you right now,” he said. “Great. Do it quickly or I will force you to it. I swear to God. I will make you regret my life. I will make you commit suicide. I promise you, I swear,” The brothers continued.
Jordan took his life shortly afterwards. His mother Jennifer gave an emotional testimony when she told the court that her son’s death had crushed her into the turkey of the bone, furious and imprisoned in sadness. She mentioned the last message her son wrote. “What I thought was a cute news from Jordan was his farewell and love for me. I would never have thought that while I was asleep, both the defendants hid behind their screens and tortured Jordan for hours while he was alone, ”she said.
Jordan’s stepmother Jessica Demay said during her testimony that she and another Jordan’s relatives already never experience pure joy, Because every happy moment will be marked by a small cloud of sadness around him, which comes from Jordan’s death.
The father of the teenager, John Demay, told the court that he was haunted by the image of his son lying dead on a bed with a gunshot on his head. “Jordan was an amazing young man. He was durable, intelligent, educated, athlete. He was my only son. And you could talk to him for the last time in his life. That’s scary for me,” he said.
The federal judge condemned Samuel and Samson Ogoshi after hearing how Jordan committed suicide in a family house in Marquett, Michigan. The Ogoshi family, both of Lagos in Nigeria, were previously out of Nigeria to put them to justice. The brothers confessed to sexual abuse of teenage boys.
Were accused of operating an international gang of sexual blackmailin which they pretended to be women who led to Jordan’s suicide in March 2022. The perversible brothers examined their victims to find out where they live, go to school and work, as well as the identity of their family and friends. When they obtained the information, the brothers addressed their goals and managed to talk minor victims to create and send sexually explicit photos of themselves.
“When they received photos, they created a collage of pictures that contained a sexually explicit image along with other pictures of the victim and her school, family and friends,” the prosecutors explained. “The Ogoshi brothers threatened to send collages to family, friends and classmates if the victim disagrees with the payment through online cash applications,” explained. Federal prosecutors said their sexual blackmail schemes were focused on more than 100 victims, including Jordan. “The condemnation of Samuel and Samson is broadcast by a thunder signal,” said Prosecutor Mark Totten in a statement.
US District Judge Robert J. Jonker who He sentenced the Ogoshi to 5 years of supervision after his release, he said that the amount of compensation that the brothers had to pay will decide after he received further information. Before the judgment of the brothers Jonker said that The case requires long punishments.
Both defendants showed heartless indifference to lifewhile noting that The siblings continued their sexual fraud even after they learned that Jordan committed suicide.
Lawyer Samuel Ogoshi, Sean Tilton, said his client cooperated with the authorities and He wrote an apology letter, Samuel regrets his actions and feels a huge guilt for losing life in this case.
Attorney Samson Ogoshi, Julia Kelly, stated during the judgment that she The client regrets his actions very much and that he was 18 when he started to participate in blackmail and fraud. She said that such frauds were common in Lagos in Nigeria and he perceived them as a quick way to make money. Kelly wrote that hundreds of people like him were involved in similar frauds. “They told him who could provide him with a hacked account, how to create a fake profile to improve accounts, and since English is not his birth language, he got instructions on what to say,” she wrote.
