Indian-origin man held over cyberstalking, rape threats to woman in US

An Indianorigin man in the US has been arrested and charged with cyberstalking a woman whom he harassed using several social media accounts and emails and solicited others to rape murder and decapitate her in exchange for BitcoinDesmond Babloo Singh 19 of New York has been indicted on federal charges of cyberstalking causing intentional damage to a protected computer aggravated identity theft emailing a hoax bomb threat and murder for hire United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert K Hur said on TuesdayAccording to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint in February 2020 the man sent the victim an Instagram story in which he professed his love for herThe woman a former classmate of Desmond Singhs older sister rejected his romantic advances and told him that she was not interested in a relationship with him The woman who resides in Maryland asked Desmond Singh to not contact her any furtherThe affidavit said that from approximately April to November 2020 Desmond Singh allegedly used more than 100 different social media electronic communication and phone accounts to send the woman harassing and unsolicited messagesThe messages included express and implied threats of death and bodily injury sexualised violence and racial slursDesmond Singh also allegedly accessed several of the womans electronic accounts without authorisation changing her passwords to lock her out of her accounts and posting offensive images and statements to her accounts without authorisationHe allegedly obtained personal images that had been privately stored in the womans Snapchat account which he later posted on social media accounts used to harass her and sent via text message to her and her family membersAccording to the affidavit the man publicly posted the womans personal information on several occasions and encouraged others to harass the victimDesmond Singh also allegedly posted the personal information of the womans family members He allegedly swatted the woman causing a police response to her Baltimore County residence in response to an emailed bomb threat it said adding that Desmond Singh solicited others online to rape murder and decapitate the woman in exchange for BitcoinIf convicted Desmond Singh faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison for cyberstalking a maximum of 10 years in federal prison for causing intentional damage to a protected computer a mandatory two years in federal prison consecutive to any other sentence imposed for aggravated identity theft a maximum of five years in federal prison for emailing a hoax bomb threat and a maximum of 10 years in federal prison for murder for hire He will have his initial appearance in US District Court in Baltimore at a later dateThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever