Muhammad Zain Ul Abideen Rasheed: Grim way Australia’s worst ever online sexual predator targeted underage girls – as the disgusting questions he would ask them are revealed
by David Southwell, Daily Mail Australia, August 22, 2024:
A man who impersonated a teenage YouTube star to sexually extort and abuse 286 girls worldwide has been described by authorities as one of Australian’s most prolific online underage sex predators as he awaits his fate.
Muhammad Zain Ul Abideen Rasheed, 29, is already behind bars, having previously been jailed for luring a 14-year-old girl to a carpark and sexually assaulting her in 2019.
Disturbing details of other crimes in the months before and after that assault, where the petroleum engineer trawled the internet for underage victims and pretended to befriend them before extorting them for sexual images was laid bare by prosecutors in Perth’s District Court on Thursday.
The former private school student accrued so many victims that his sentencing hearing will run for two days to catalogue the crimes, The West Australian reported.
The victims were from all across Australia and 20 countries worldwide, including the US, Canada and New Zealand.
Rasheed posed as a YouTube personality to befriend girls online and used a questionnaire to extort them into sending sexually explicit material.
The questionnaire Rasheed sent was modelled on 20 Questions and asked his victims ‘What is your darkest secret?’
Once that was completed Rasheed would send the girl a written sexual fantasy in two parts asking them whether they would like that with the only replies being ‘Yes or no.’
If the reply was ‘yes’, Rasheed would ask for intimate pictures of the girl in her underwear or naked.
If that was refused he would threaten to send the answer about the fantasy to her Instagram follower base.
If photos were sent, he would also threaten to release those unless the victim kept following his demands….
Rasheed sat silent in the dock and showed no emotion as his heinous crimes were laid bare in court on Thursday….
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