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Grindr vigilante Ryan Naumenko pleads guilty to exposing Mildura ‘creeps’ online
A magistrate has told a man who impersonated a teenage boy in order to expose online “creeps” that being a vigilante is not a defence for breaking the law.
Key points:
- Ryan Naumenko, 38, set up meetings with older men whose images he then posted online
- He pleaded guilty to improperly using a carriage service but told the judge he didn’t know his actions were illegal
- Naumenko is being urged to get a lawyer before he next appears in court
The Mildura Magistrates Court heard 38-year-old Ryan Victor Naumenko and others assumed the identities of teenagers on the gay dating app Grindr in February 2019.
They used the fake profiles to tell men they were 14 or 15 and then arranged to meet them, ostensibly for sexual purposes.
Naumenko and the…
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