A 40-year-old Toronto man has been sentenced to 33 years in a US prison after running a massive, years-long online sextortion operation that targeted more than 145 American children.

Pathmanathan was sentenced on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, by Chief Judge James E. Boasberg in a case highlighting the dangers of online child exploitation.

Ramanan Pathmanathan, 40, was sentenced Wednesday after he targeted girls and boys “as young as six, and subjected them to horrors no child should ever experience,” a U.S.…