<cite index="41-1,41-2,41-3">A federal jury found Montrey Roseberry, 20, of Orlando guilty on 23 February 2026 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; he faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison, with sentencing scheduled for 28 May 2026.</cite> <cite index="41-5,41-6">From at least July 2023 through at least April 2024, Roseberry operated a scheme to extort, intimidate and threaten children into producing CSAM by impersonating a woman and coercing young victims he identified on social media into producing images and videos of themselves engaged in sexually explicit conduct.</cite> <cite index="37-7">Roseberry then used the images and videos to extort the victims into producing increasingly perverse content involving sadomasochism, coprophilia, bestiality, and the sexual abuse of other children.</cite>
Platform-native detection of impersonation-driven sextortion before the first explicit image is shared would have disrupted Roseberry's entire operation at inception, preventing the secondary blackmail that drove victims into progressively more extreme abuse. Guardii, a Meta Business Partner operating across Instagram, Snapchat, Discord and other platforms, deploys anti-sextortion detection that flags the opening moves of this exact pattern—catfish profiles soliciting explicit material, escalating coercion after initial compliance, and threats to distribute prior imagery—blocking the hostile contact or surfacing the at-risk child to parents or authorities within the first exchange. The platform's real-time monitoring could have severed access to the 50-plus victims and prevented the compounding victimization that resulted from Roseberry's use of earlier material to extort additional, sadistic content.
