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Snapchat 'monster' Siah Riley abused more than 150 children
Riley used fake Snapchat accounts to coerce 152 children into sending explicit images, and police found 1,831 indecent images on his devices.
- Judge Shaun Smith KC jailed Siah Riley for 31 years on Thursday, branding the 36-year-old from Normanton 'every parent's worst nightmare' after he systematically abused 152 victims aged nine to 16 using fake Snapchat accounts between 2021 and 2023.
- Between 2021 and 2023, Prosecutor Leanne Summers detailed how Riley operated two fraudulent Snapchat accounts—one posing as teenage boy Josh King, another as teenage girl Kim—to systematically incite children to share sexual images and videos.
- When victims became reluctant, Riley blackmailed 24 of them, threatening to post material on TikTok, Facebook, pornography sites, the dark web and 'everywhere he could.' Police later seized more than 2,700 images and videos from victims aged nine to 16.
- The judge imposed a lifetime Sexual Harm Prevention Order and placed Riley on the sex offender register for life. Victim impact statements revealed girls felt their personalities were 'destroyed' and they had 'betrayed themselves,' with one mother stating her family would 'never forgive and forget.'
- Riley's previous rape conviction in 2013, for which he served six and a half years, preceded this escalated offending. A February 2025 re-arrest for acquiring unregistered devices while on bail led Judge Smith to declare him the most prolific criminal of his type in his 46-year legal career.
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'Twisted' Derbyshire child sex offender jailed after abusing more than 150 children online
A prolific Derbyshire child sex offender who pretended to be a teenager on Snapchat and blackmailed children into sending him explicit videos and images has been jailed for 25 years.
·Derbyshire, United Kingdom
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