Michigan football player’s Nigerian scammers pay price for teen's sextortion suicide
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Two Nigerian brothers were sentenced in Michigan federal court Thursday to serve 17.5 years in prison for their roles in sextortion crimes that led to 17-year-old Jordan DeMay's suicide.
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"I think, at the end of the day, this case is a testament to what we can do as a country and put some validity to what's really happening online to young people," Jordan's father, John DeMay, told Fox News Digital. "It shows people that [sextortion] is real. I think that's the most important part of the sentence. That was the last piece of this puzzle … that says, ‘Hey, this is a legitimate claim.’"
U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker handed down the decision Thursday morning, marking the first time in the nation's history that Nigerian sextortion scammers have been extradited to the United States and sentenced to prison, the FBI confirmed to Fox News Digital.
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