Isaiah Alexander Allen
Cyberstalking (posting a woman's intimate photos online without consent)
- Defendant
- Isaiah Alexander Allen
- Reddit role
- user
- Charge
- Cyberstalking (posting a woman's intimate photos online without consent)
- Jurisdiction
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
- Date
- 2019-05-24
- Sentence
- 57 months in federal prison plus 3 years of supervised release and $23,300 in restitution, to run concurrent with a sentence in a pending California Superior Court case
Summary
Isaiah Alexander Allen, then 22, of Lubbock, Texas, was sentenced on May 24, 2019, in the Northern District of Texas to 57 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to cyberstalking in a case the U.S. Attorney's Office described as posting so-called "revenge porn." The newest record located is the federal court docket, which shows that Senior Judge Sam R. Cummings also imposed three years of supervised release, $23,300 in restitution and a $100 special assessment, ordered the prison term to run concurrent with a sentence in a pending California Superior Court case, and dismissed the remaining count of the indictment on the government's motion. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Allen met the woman involved on an internet gaming website and, over the course of their online relationship, she sent him several sexual photos. When she refused to provide additional images, the office said, Allen posted dozens of her naked photos online. The office reported that the photos were originally uploaded to Reddit and Imgur and later shared on sites like 4Chan and PornStarTube, and had been viewed more than a million times. In a factual résumé filed with his plea, Allen admitted posting the nude photographs on Reddit and Imgur. The records reviewed do not name a subreddit or account. The docket shows an indictment filed on November 14, 2018, and a not-guilty plea at arraignment on November 21, 2018. Allen then pleaded guilty before a magistrate judge on January 2, 2019. KCBD, a Lubbock television station, published a rewrite of the Justice Department roundup. The FBI and the Lubbock Police Department investigated. The records reviewed do not describe any takedown action by Reddit or any report from the platform.
Sources
- 01U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas: NDTX Roundup - 1/9/2019Official / Reddit2019
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