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.…