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Benjamin Jomaa He received two concurrent sentences – one for commonwealth charges and the other for state offences – with the longer sentence being 27 months. (AAP)<\/p>\nA man who sent sexual AI-manipulated images to women in an attempt to extort real explicit photos from them has been jailed for more than two years.<\/p>\n
In sentencing, Judge Kirralee Perry read graphic sequences of near-identical messages Benjamin Jomaa sent on Facebook to eight women trying to blackmail them.<\/p>\n
“A clear message must be sent to the community that such deceit and disrespect will not be tolerated,” she said at Gosford Local Court on Friday.<\/p>\n
“I do acknowledge the long-lasting consequences and impact of victims who have suffered violations, such as this, to their lives.”<\/p>\n
Benjamin Jomaa He received two concurrent sentences – one for commonwealth charges and the other for state offences – with the longer sentence being 27 months. (AAP)<\/p>\n
The women harassed online included two sisters as well as a mother and daughter.<\/p>\n
He attempted to coerce them to send him intimate images of their genitalia using “sinister, threatening and vulgar” language using multiple fake Facebook profiles.<\/p>\n
One example cited was the 32-year-old manipulating a photo of two sisters holidaying in Thailand to make it appear as though they were topless before sending it to them both.<\/p>\n
“If you don’t respond, the photos are going online,” Jomaa said in another message.<\/p>\n
The sales assistant who worked on a casual basis at a Supercheap Auto meticulously trawled social media pages of the victims downloading pictures of them, the court heard.<\/p>\n
He then digitally altered them to create pornographic composites which he sent to women he considered “easy targets”, threatening them to comply with his demands of providing him with nude images.<\/p>\n
“He was prepared to use the repetition or cut and pasting of those text messages to cast his net wide in a short space of time on any given day, regardless of the harm caused to the victims,” Judge Perry noted.<\/p>\n
The offences occurred between October 2024 and April 2025.<\/p>\n
Sexual extortion or “sextortion” is a form of blackmail where a person threatens to share a nude or sexual image or video unless their victim gives in to their demands.<\/p>\n
A psychiatric assessment found Jomaa, who was under severe financial stress, had probable autism with poor insight into his own behaviour and a limited understanding of relationships.<\/p>\n
But the judge flatly rejected arguments his impulsive misconduct was construed “sexual banter.”<\/p>\n
He received two concurrent sentences – one for commonwealth charges and the other for state offences – with the longer sentence being 27 months.<\/p>\n
He must serve 16 months before being eligible for parole.<\/p>\n
When Jomaa was arrested in May, police found all of the photos – both edited and original – in a hidden folder on his phone.<\/p>\n
He was charged two months before the NSW government introduced a bill to specifically ban AI-generated sexual imagery.<\/p>\n
Under the laws, editing a photo to create an intimate image of someone while being reckless as to their consent carries a maximum penalty of three years’ imprisonment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who sent sexual AI-manipulated images to women in an attempt to extort real explicit photos from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-629043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}