A ‘depraved’ and ‘inhumane’ child sex monster who tricked and tormented young girls into sending him nude photos will spend more than eight years behind bars.
Ranpati Amarasinghe, 24, was arrested by Australian Federal Police at his home in Melbourne in September 2020, after two years of his cruel sextortion scheme.
The student convinced multiple young girls as young as 11 to send him nude photos or videos after striking up conversations online.
Ranpati Amarasinghe, 24, will likely be shipped back to Kandy in Sri Lanka after serving years behind bars for his ‘inhumane’ crimes
Ranpati Amarasinghe, 24, (right) was arrested by Australian Federal Police at his home in Melbourne in September 2020, after two years of his cruel sextortion scheme
Amarasinghe would then threaten to send the photos to the women’s friends, family or boyfriends if they didn’t submit to more of his depraved requests.
In some instances even when his victims complied, the vile grub would send the images anyway because ‘whores deserve to be exposed’.
On Wednesday, Amarasinghe was sentenced in the County Court of Victoria to 13 and a half years behind bars.
The court heard he will likely be deported back to his homeland of Sri Lanka in disgrace upon serving his non-parole period.
In sentencing, Judge Douglas Trapnell labelled the child sex offender a ‘brutal coward’.
‘Your offending was protracted, planned, organised, prolific and involved threats,’ he said.
Amarasinghe, of Hastings, south east of Melbourne, had come to Australia on a student visa and had been working at Woolworths while offending.
He pleaded guilty in January to 25 charges of obtaining, publishing, possessing, or transmitting child porn or abuse material.
Eight of those counts were using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material and one count of publishing child pornography material online.
Officers who busted Amarasinghe seized his iPhone and hard drive and demanded he hand over passwords to his social media accounts.
Police found 42 pictures and two videos considered child abuse material on his hard drive and nine images and one video on his phone.
Judge Trapnell described Amarasinghe’s crimes as ‘cruel’ and ‘inhumane’.
‘During this nearly 20-month period you cowardly threatened your victims, callously, brutally and cruelly,’ he said.
‘Your depravity knew no bounds. It was bad enough causing these young, innocent girls to sexually compromise themselves in this way, but to threaten them in the way you did and to carry through with the threats was nothing short of brutal.’
Judge Trapnell said Amarasinghe had presented one face to the real world while hiding behind a cloak of anonymity.
The student (right) used multiple fake personas to trick his victims into sending nude photos including the pseudonyms ‘Emma Law’ and ‘John’
‘By objectifying these girls you dehumatised them and in the process you lost your own humanity,’ he said.
The student had used multiple fake personas to trick his victims into sending lewd photos including the pseudonyms ‘Emma Law’ and ‘John’.
One child was just 13 when she first sent naked images and videos of herself to ‘John’ on Snapchat in November 2018.
After she declined to send Amarasinghe more lewd content he threatened to send the nude photos to her family and friends.
He also messaged a few of the girl’s social media contacts and asked them to inform her ‘this was just the start’.
Another victim’s mother took screenshots of a conversation Amarasinghe had with her daughter to the police after she complied with his demands for nude photos.
He threatened to send the images to her Instagram followers if she didn’t send more material, even after she begged him not to.
‘Get ready to be ruined,’ he told his young victim and ‘want me to send these vids to ur friends or no?’
Amarasinghe promised the girl that if she sent photos once more he would leave her alone and get rid of the compromising images.
‘I am ruining your life and don’t give a s**t. You are a f**king whore,’ he said.
A recipient of one of the lewd videos in Amarasinghe’s possession told him he could get in ‘serious trouble’ for circulating the child abuse material.
‘If they wanna hoe around let them. You need to chill,’ they said.
‘They don’t know what they are doing, and you could ruin the rest of their life if you spread this s**t. You can get in serious trouble too. I have close friends doing years for this s**t.’
A 17-year-old girl from the US made a statement to police that a user named ‘John’ had threatened her over Snapchat.
After the pair exchanged photos he said he would tell her boyfriend they were speaking and demanded photos of her face, breasts, and vagina.
‘I’m not feeling very nice today so you’re going to send me nude body pics or I’m going to send these to your boyfriend and he’ll break up with you,’ he said.
He uploaded a photo of one of his 19-year-old victims to an adult pornography website with their full name and social media accounts.
The student labelled the photo ‘hot teen’ and sent a chilling message to the woman he had demanded it from, saying: ‘you are going to be on porn’.
Going off a tip from jurisdictions in the US and the UK, the Australian Federal Police searched Amarasinghe’s home in June 2020 and found the child abuse material.
He will spend his first night behind bars on Wednesday.
