Canadian national Ramanan Pathmanathan posed as a teenage boy from New Jersey and demanded victims engage in sexually explicit conduct in video chats, show court papers.

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.…

WASHINGTON - American authorities say a Toronto man has been sentenced to 33 years in prison in what they describe as a "prolific sextortion scheme" that targeted more than 100

A Canadian man was sentenced to 33 years in prison after pleading guilty to targeting more than 145 children across the United States, some as young as 6 years old, in an…

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…

Canadian national Ramanan Pathmanathan posed as a teenage boy from New Jersey and demanded victims engage in sexually explicit conduct in video chats, show court papers.

A Toronto man already serving a sentence for sexually exploiting and sextorting kids in Canada has now been sentenced in the U.S.

A Canadian man received a 33-year prison sentence in the United States for a widespread sextortion scheme. Ramanan Pathmanathan targeted over 145 children, some as young as six.…