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He thought he was sexting with a woman online. Then the blackmail began.
Police arrested a 23-year-old man, Jauan Wright, for allegedly impersonating a woman online in order to get explicit nude images from an unnamed student at Louisiana State University (LSU) in the capital city of Baton Rouge, WBRZ reported.The student said he met Wright online, initially believing him to be a woman. Only after sharing nude images of himself did he discover that Wright was a man, he told the LSU police department in a complaint filed on November 23. Related Russia is blackmailing gay men into volunteering to fight Vladimir Putins war in Ukraine Wright allegedly began threatening to send the students images to the students friends and family unless Wright had sex with him.The student reportedly had sex with Wright and, at some point, Wright allegedly recorded the student showering naked without the students knowledge or consent. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Afterward, Wright allegedly began contacting the student and his mother from anonymous messaging accounts, even sending the students mother a copy of the shower video.Wright reportedly demanded that the student pay him $250 over Apple Pay in an extortion attempt. Police arrested Wright on December 5, charges of extortion and nonconsensual disclosure of a private image.A somewhat similar 2015 case in the U.K. involved a woman named Gayle Newland who was accused of pretending to be a man and duping a woman into having sex with her. The victim said she began an online relationship on Facebook with a man named Kye Fortune. The woman and Fortune cyberdated for two years, began meeting in person, had sex, and were even engaged. But the victim never saw Fortune; she agreed to be blindfolded during all their meetups since Fortune claimed to be recovering from a brain tumor surgery and didnt want the victim to see his scars.The victim eventually removed the blindfold after she attempted fellatio on Fortune and found that Fortune was actually a woman wearing a strap-on penis. Newland faced five counts of sexual assault as a result and was jailed for 6.5 years.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.
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