Even in the anything-goes-US, 19-year-old Anthony Stacl’s sordid manipulation of the Facebook has sent shockwaves. He had posed as a female classmate online, solicited nude photos from his pick of the cutest guys in school and then blackmailed them into having oral and anal sex with him. The boy from New Berlin, Wisconsin is now facing a minimum of 50 years in prison.
In February last, Stancl was charged with five counts of child enticement, two counts of second degree sexual assault, two counts of third degree sexual assault, possession of child pornography, the repeated sexual assault of the same child, and making a bomb threat.
"Mr. Stancl used the internet to first communicate with people on Facebook, pretending to be a female," said Waukesha County District Attorney Brad Schimel. "After some conversations with these individuals, he would eventually coax them into providing him with nude photographs of themselves in exchange for what they thought was nude photographs of the girl they were talking with.
"It wasn't a girl, it was Anthony Stancl."
He allegedly exchanged pictures with at least 31 teenaged boys, and Stancl then tried to blackmail or extort half of them into meeting him for sex acts.
All 31 boys attend New Berlin Eisenhower Middle/High School, said Attorney Brad Schimel.
The sexual assaults occurred in a bathroom at the high school, the school parking lot, a New Berlin Public Library restroom, Valley View Park, Malone Park, Minooka Park and at some of the victims' homes, according to the complaint.