A Manhattan man was sentenced Tuesday to life in jail for operating a sextortion scheme on a 13-year-old lady and forcing her to have intercourse with him in an Atlantic Metropolis lodge, authorities stated.
Zachary Williams, now 37, was convicted final yr in New Jersey federal court docket on 4 fees associated to the appalling plot. He had been arrested in a March 2021 sting operation.
“Zachary Williams is a callous sexual predator whose crimes against children were especially cruel,” New Jersey U.S. Legal professional John Giordano stated in an announcement. “First and foremost, the court’s imposed sentence will forever protect our children from further abuse by Williams.”
Williams started messaging his sufferer on Snapchat in September 2020 and instructed her he was 17 years previous, in accordance with police. He satisfied her to ship him nude photographs, then started threatening to ship the photographs to her family and friends, cops stated.
Utilizing the blackmail scheme, Williams pressured the lady to satisfy him at a lodge in Atlantic County, N.J., in October 2020, investigators stated. He then pressured her to have intercourse with him within the lodge and refused to delete the nude photographs as promised, in accordance with authorities.
Cops caught Williams by posing because the 13-year-old lady and organising a second assembly in the identical lodge. Officers who seized his telephone discovered extra pictures of kid pornography, resulting in investigations in New York and Connecticut. The Connecticut case concerned sextortion of an 11-year-old lady, police stated.
Williams was convicted on two counts of touring throughout state strains to have intercourse with a minor, one depend of possessing little one pornography and one depend of coercing a minor into intercourse.
