Overview

• Authorities confirm that additional parents have come forward with suspected victim reports since the 20-year-old’s mid-June arrest
• Investigators are analyzing terabytes of digital evidence seized from Shahriar J.’s Hamburg home after FBI-assisted raids
• Prosecutors say eight children aged 11 to 15 were coerced into self-harm online, including a 13-year-old U.S. boy who died by suicide and a 14-year-old Canadian girl who attempted to kill herself
• The suspect, a former private university medical student who denies all allegations, remains in a juvenile facility undergoing a psychiatric assessment
• No additional Hamburg-based members of the international “764” network have been identified, and investigators continue collaboration with U.S. authorities on evidence review