The suspects are in the custody of the
Cyber Crime Unit of the Police as thorough investigation into the case are
being conducted
Two first-year students of the
University of Ghana have been apprehended by police for allegedly coercing some
Junior High School Students for their nude pictures and blackmailing them with
the pictures.
The suspects, Desmond Appleton
and Elvin Boakye Agyemangwere reported by parents of the victims to the Cyber
Crime Unit of the Police service for allegedly posting the nude pictures of the
underage students.
The victims are students from the ages
of 14 to 16 in unnamed Junior High Schools in Accra.
According to a report from Daily
Graphic, one of the suspects, Elvin Boakye Agyemang became friends with one of
the victims after he came to sell T shirts in her school.
They started communicating on social
media app, Telegram through which he convinced the victim to send him nude
pictures of herself which she obliged.
After the victim sent the pictures,
Elvis leveraged on it to demand even more pictures, call credits and other
items threatening to post the pictures online of she didn’t.
Out of the fear of been exposed, the
victim agreed to his demands until she decided not to and deleted the application.
The suspect apparently posted the nude
pictures online and eventually was seen by one of the teachers of the victim
who reported the case to their parents.
Chief Superintendent Dr Gustav, Herbert
Yankson, Director of the Unit told the newspaper that the suspects were
arrested after an official complaint was sent to them by the parents of one of
the victims.
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