The ‘Cowardly’ revenge porn site operator breaks down in tears as he is sentenced to 18 YEARS for publishing thousands of nude photos online and charging women $350 EACH to remove them
- Kevin Bollaert was found guilty of 27 counts of identity theft and extortion
- He operated ugotposted.com, where anonymous users posted nudes without the subject’s consent
- He then earned tens of thousands from running changemyreputation.com, where victims would pay fees of $300 to $350 to have their photos removed
- Also published their names, addresses and social media details
- He was sentenced to 18 years Friday
- Judge said the sentence reflected the amount of victims
- Prosecutors said he took pleasure in hurting women
A San Diego man who operated a ‘revenge porn’ website and then charged victims to remove nude images and their personal information was sentenced Friday to 18 years in state prison, the attorney general’s office said.
Kevin Bollaert, 28, was convicted in February of 21 counts of identity theft and six counts of extortion in San Diego Superior Court for running a pair of websites that capitalized on the internet as a forum for public shaming.
The landmark case was the first time a person had been tried for a running revenge porn ring in the United States.
Jilted lovers and hackers could anonymously post nude photos of people without their consent, along with personal information about them, at a website Bollaert created and moderated, called ugotposted.com.
More than 10,000 images, mainly of women, were posted between December 2012 and September 2013.
