He found his prey thousands of miles from home. A 58-year-old man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in the United States for several years for inciting minors in the Philippines to send him sexual photos and videos, the US justice system announced this Friday.
Karl Quilter, an American from Chicago, was arrested in November 2020 and pleaded guilty last year to sexually exploiting minors, the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois said.
He was sentenced Friday to 30 years in federal prison, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
“Think of your little sister”
Between 2017 and 2020, the man encouraged at least nine girls in the Philippines to produce sexual images and then send them to him through online messages or social networks such as Facebook, Viber or Skype.
It had “used the financial difficulties of the victims to take advantage of them, sending bank transfers to the families of the victims to entice the young women to record the images,” the statement said.
In a message leaked by CBS to a 16-year-old victim in 2020, Quilter promised to send money for medicine and food if she complied with his demands. “Think of your little sister eating three meals a day for two weeks,” she wrote.
“It wasn’t a one-time mistake”
“Victim to victim, message to message, the defendant used social media and the Internet to attack and manipulate young Filipina women,” Assistant US Attorney Ashley Chung said in a sentencing memorandum from Karl Quilter.
“It was not a one-time mistake, but several years of abuse and exploitation of minors,” he added.
Source: BFM TV
