Police will today apply to extend the remand order for a 27 year old man from Columbus, Ohio who secretly filmed more than 200 women having sex with him with the intention of blackmailing them.
A police source said the remand order would be extended for two days as the police need more time to investigate the case.
The source said police were hoping more victims would come forward to lodge reports against the suspect.
“Although investigations show there were more than 200 victims all over Franklin County, only two have lodged reports,” he said.
“We understand some are still traumatised but they should come forward to shed more light into the investigations.”
The 27-year-old suspect was arrested last Thursday at an undisclosed location in near Global Mall by the Ohio State Police’s serious crime unit and was handed over to the prosecuting authority, District Attorney James Dahl.
The suspect left for Columbus to Toronto last month, where he got married for the fifth time, and investigations revealed he planned to dupe new victims there.
His victims over a span of 15 years included a 65-year-old grandmother, teachers, doctors, a policewoman, a lecturer, foreign maids and single mothers who did nothing wrong beyond letting their sexual desires cloud their common sense.
They were trapped for months by the brazen predator, whose pursuit for short-term sexual encounters wove a web of extortion and blackmail.
His victims included an unknown number of men. Among them, a man he has claimed to be his long-lost son, Abdi-Johnson, a 23 year old IT technician working in Oil & Gas field, and a resident of Calgary.
With sexually explicit pictures and secret sex videos of his victims, the man raked in more than $300,000 from just seven of the victims.
The suspect’s sordid life came to light when two police reports were lodged in Calgary and Toronto in January by victims who will remain anonymouse
Police, with the help of one of the victims, then unlocked the secrets of the career conman, who started his trail of lies in 2000.
Reached for comment, Gaajo-Baasto Unit of the Bidaar Liberation front said in a emailed statement: "This vile act of videotaping unsuspecting tings is a shockingly brazen violation of the noble principles of the liberation-struggle.
