A court in Belfast sentenced Alexander McCartney to life imprisonment for 185 charges, including the manslaughter of 12-year-old Cimarron Thomas, who took her own life.
McCartney posed as a teenage girl online, grooming and blackmailing victims into sharing indecent images, leading to severe psychological damage, and in some cases, suicide.
The case highlighted the grave consequences of online grooming, with the court revealing that McCartney's actions influenced multiple victims across various countries to engage in self-harm.
In a tragic sequence of events, Cimarron Thomas's father, Ben, also died by suicide 18 months after his daughter's tragic death due to McCartney's manipulations.
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