The Perth man, identified as Muhammad Zain Ul Abideen Rasheed, coerced 286 victims, including 180 children, from 20 different countries into performing sexually explicit acts on camera or video, the Australian federal police said.
Reading the article and reaching the part about the extortion is just so heartbreakingly familiar for anyone who remembers the Amanda Todd case here in Canada.
There is no punishment strong enough for people like this.
Different systems, the length doesn't tell the whole story.
André Klip, a professor of criminal law, criminal procedure and the transnational aspects of criminal law at Maastricht University, said he wasn't surprised by Thursday's outcome and that Coban would likely spend more time in prison in the Netherlands than if he served his time in Canada.
"Dutch law is very predictable in terms of when a person can be released after being sentenced," he said. "It's very likely that ... he would have been out far more early [in Canada]." -CBC
Keeping someone locked up for decades doesn't solve a problem. It hides it. Some things can not be corrected and we need to come to terms with it.
If someone is causing such a massive problem, there ought to be a solution which isn't letting people in the future deal with it after he is out of prison.