The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
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Tuesday, January 01, 2019 02:44 PM
New York Man Pleads Guilty In Revenge Porn Sextortion Case
Joseph Iorio, 21, of Holtsville, a New York City suburb, was arrested last July on charges relating to an alleged “sextortion” scheme, the New York Post reported.
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Prosecutors say Iorio moderated a website's chat room, which featured explicit photos of women that had been submitted by men and boys, Newsday reported. Iorio would not allow clients to view the raciest material submitted by others until they disclosed names and contact information for the women in the photos the clients submitted.
Iorio would then contact the women, and threaten to share the racy photos in his possession -- unless the women provided him with even more lurid shots, the report said.
“We can only imagine the type of fear, isolation and desperation that these women must feel when they receive a message showing that someone they don’t know has an image of them naked or performing a sex act,” Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini said Friday in a statement. He likened Iorio’s actions to “a modern form of sexual torture.”
