A Nigerian guy has been extradited to the United States to stand prosecution over alleged sextortion of a minor, which ended in the sufferer’s dying.

Hassanbunhussein Abolore Lawal, 24, from Nigeria’s Osun order was once flown to the United States on Saturday later an oath was once reportedly reached with the Nigerian govt that he would no longer be sentenced to dying if discovered accountable.

Lawal seemed in a federal court docket in Columbia, South Carolina, on Monday dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit, with shackles on his wrists and ankles, US media reported.

He entered a no longer accountable plea to fees together with kid exploitation for the purpose of dying and the manufacturing and distribution of kid sexual abuse subject matter.

The investigation which ended in the Nigerian’s extradition was once introduced later Gavin Guffey, a 17-year-old took his personal hour later he was once allegedly victimised by means of Mr Lawal.

The accused allegedly posed as a tender girl on social media and coerced the teenager into sending compromising pictures.

He after extorted and despatched harassing messages to the sufferer threatening to spill the pictures and wreck his popularity except he despatched him cash. Mr Lawal was once stated to have then performed the similar factor to individuals of the sufferer’s public.

Mr Lawal faces the opportunity of hour in jail. The rate of kid exploitation for the purpose of dying carries a compulsory 30-year sentence.

He’ll proceed to be held with out bail. His nearest court docket listening to is Monday.

Utmost 12 months, the oldsters of a British teen who took his personal hour later turning into a sufferer of sextortion made a right away enchantment to criminals in Nigeria to ban “terrorising” the inclined.

Their son, Murray Dowey, from Dunblane, was once simplest 16 when he died terminating 12 months.

He was once believed to were tricked by means of criminals into sending intimate footage of himself and after blackmailed.

In September 2024, two brothers from Nigeria who focused a 17-year-old in a sextortion rip-off had been sentenced to 17 years and 6 months in prison in the United States, It was once the primary a hit prosecution of Nigerians for sextortion in the United States.

Instagram proprietor Meta says it has got rid of hundreds of accounts in Nigeria that had been seeking to goal crowd in sextortion schemes.

The director of Nigeria’s Nationwide Cyber Crime Centre Uche Ifeanyi Henry has prior to now advised the BBC that Nigeria’s govt had spent tens of millions of kilos on a state of the art cyber-crime centre, to turn it was once taking the problem severely.