California man gets 18 years for US ‘revenge porn’ site


  • TECH
  • Monday, 06 Apr 2015

EVIL INCARNATE: A filepic of a man looking at photos on a social networking site. Bollaert profited off the misery and humiliation of the victims of his revenge porn website by extorting money from them to have the explicit photographs removed.

LOS ANGELES: A California man who posted thousands of sexually explicit photos of men and women on a “revenge porn” website was jailed for 18 years in what was described as the first case of its kind in US criminal history. 

San Diego man Kevin Bollaert, 28, was convicted in February of running a website that hosted more than 10,000 explicit photographs. 

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