An Orlando man was found guilty Thursday of running a child “sextortion scheme” that prosecutors said involved more than 50 underage victims — some of whom he forced to perform sexual acts with other children and even animals.
Montrey Roseberry, 20, would pose as a woman online and coerce young victims he identified on social media into producing images and videos of themselves engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to a Monday news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Once he obtained the photos and videos, Roseberry used them to extort the victims into producing even more graphic content involving sadomasochism, human feces, bestiality and the sexual abuse of other children, the release said.
A court document, for example, describes video from the social media platform Snapchat that depict two child victims, apparently an older boy and a girl, age three or four. The boy engages in sexual acts with the younger girl and in a separate video engages in a sexual act with a dog.
If the victims wouldn’t comply with this request, Roseberry threatened to send the initial images and videos they had given him to their family members, friends and classmates, prosecutors said. He would sometimes threaten the children with death and even sent the victims photographs of their homes and the names of their schools, friends and family, the release said.
Prosecutors said he ran the scheme from around July 2023 through April 2024. It is not clear what led to his arrest.
He is currently being detained at the Orange County Jail, according to a DOJ spokesperson.
Roseberry was convicted Thursday of three counts of coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, three counts of production of child sexual abuse material and one count of possession of child sexual abuse material, the DOJ release said.
His sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 28. He faces life in prison, according to the release.