There are certain information in this essay that readers may find upsetting.
After entering a guilty plea to 185 crimes, including the manslaughter of a 12-year-old American girl who committed suicide, Alexander McCartney, 26, is awaiting punishment.
According to information presented at a pre-sentence hearing, his victims were from the UK, USA, continental Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, and they ranged in age from 10 to 16.
He convinced them to send him pictures by pretending to be someone else on social media, and he then used them to threaten them into sending him additional explicit content.
Prosecution attorney David McDowell KC claimed that McCartney, of County Armagh, had “degraded and humiliated them.”
The former computer student entered a guilty plea to 70 counts of inducing a child to engage in sexual activity, 59 counts of blackmail, and one case of homicide.
The prosecution claims that he seemed “utterly remorseless” and admitted to dozens of offenses pertaining to the creation and dissemination of pornographic photos of youngsters.
