Column One: Inside an FBI agent's hunt for an Israeli sextortionist
A few days later, Korami stepped into Gaber’s bedroom. It was just as she had imagined it from her desk at the FBI’s office in West Covina: a “dark dungeon” with the shutters closed on that sunny July day.“I remember seeing those and thinking, ‘Guys, make sure you bag and tag every piece of this,’” she said.For more than a year, Gaber had been extorting webcam sex from girls as young as 12, nearly all of them American.
The blackmail sometimes included screenshots to terrify the girl with a raw display of how mortifying the aftermath had been for another victim who refused to comply.After a girl resisted his demands, Gaber sent sexually explicit images of her to her friends. The harassment at school got so bad that her family sold their house and moved to another town. “When she got to the new school,” Korami said, “those kids got hold of the material, and the bullying kept going on.
After an initial stint in counterterrorism, Korami asked to transfer to crimes against children. She was drawn by the clarity of the mission. She started reading Gaber’s emails “to just kind of get an idea of who this person is, what they were doing, what’s the scope of the conduct.”In minutes, she recognized the gravity of the case. Sextortion was becoming common, but the FBI had never seen a case with so many victims.
“You always approach it with a delicate touch,” Korami said. Agents know that many parents “are not going to have the best reactions.”It was a race against time. Week by week, the number of victims kept rising as Gaber found more girls to menace.
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