Father of high school athlete who died by suicide after sextortion scam shares heartbreaking details
August 9, 2023
368,119
9,996
2,532
3.40%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
East Idaho News Episodes Around August 9, 2023
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
24:30Now PlayingFather of high school athlete who died by suicide after sextortion scam shares heartbreaking details
YouTube Description
as posted by the channel#eastidahonews #sextortion #teenager
IDAHO FALLS — Jordan DeMay was ready to go on vacation with his family. He bought suntan lotion, packed his bags and was set to take off to Florida the following day for some time away.
It was March 24, 2022. The 17-year-old from Michigan went to his room for the night, and his parents went to bed. Within hours, the high school senior was dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after being sexually extorted by men in Nigeria.
“Someone came into his bedroom at 3 in the morning and murdered him through Instagram while we were all sleeping and had zero chance to stop it,” says John DeMay, Jordan’s dad.
DeMay spoke with EastIdahoNews.com in hopes of raising awareness of “sextortion” – defined by the FBI as a “serious crime” when someone threatens to distribute private and sensitive material of a person if they don’t provide sexual images, favors or money in return.
Three Nigerian men were arrested in June for allegedly hacking Instagram accounts and sexually extorting Jordan and more than 100 young men online. DeMay says three more Nigerians were also involved in his son’s case. The suspects are in jail in Nigeria facing extradition to the United States for prosecution, according to a news release from the United States Attorney’s Office Western District of Michigan.
Jordan was six weeks away from his 18th birthday and looked forward to graduating. He played high school sports, had a girlfriend and everyone in his town of 20,000 people seemed to know the popular teenager.
“Jordan was an amazing young man. He was always happy, and his smile lit up a room,” DeMay says. “He affected so many people in a positive way and was such a larger-than-life person. He loved the outdoors, liked to fish and loved to hunt and boat, and all that fun stuff.”
The sextortion began with a single message around 10 p.m. It appeared to be from a young lady with the username “dani.robertts” and was a simple “hello.” Jordan responded, and for a couple of hours, the two messaged back and forth.
Shortly after midnight, the scammers convinced Jordan to send an explicit photo of himself. He did, and then “the script flipped immediately,” according to DeMay.
Samuel Ogoshi, 22, allegedly sent a message to Jordan saying, “I can send this nudes to everyone and also send your nudes Until it goes viral…Just pay me rn (right now) and I won’t expose you,” according to the indictment.
“The pressure was on him very fast, and they never let him up for air,” DeMay explains. “They wanted money. He asked how much, and they said $1,000. He couldn’t pay that, so they negotiated. He ended up paying $300 in several small amounts.”
Read the entire story here
► Subscribe to East Idaho News
► Download our free app
► Like us on Facebook
► Follow us on Twitter
► Follow us on Instagram
► Get East Idaho News merch
► Subscribe to our free newsletter
Guests & Subjects Covered
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.