A 23-year-old College Park man was sentenced to 16 years and 10 months in federal prison after investigators said he spent years posing as a boy online to manipulate and threaten young girls, some as young as 9, into sending him nude photos and videos. U.S. District Judge Sarah E. Geraghty handed down the sentence on Tuesday, along with 15 years of supervised release to follow.
The case against Dye'Shuan Green traces back to 2022, when a mother in Columbus, Georgia reported to local police that her daughter had been tricked into sending nude photos to someone claiming to be a child, according to FOX 5 Atlanta. That tip set off a multi-year FBI probe into Green's online activity, one that would eventually expose a far larger pattern of abuse than a single family's ordeal.
Investigators said Green targeted young girls across the country through social media and gaming sites, impersonating a boy close to his victims' own age to gain their trust. Once he'd made contact, prosecutors said, he manipulated or threatened the girls into producing explicit images and videos. When agents searched his phone, they found chats with hundreds of young girls, the outlet's report notes.
Guilty Plea Led to Nearly 17-Year Sentence
Green pleaded guilty on June 29 to one count of production of child sexual abuse material and four counts of enticement to create child sexual abuse material. The sentence imposed Tuesday was attributed to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia, which prosecuted the case under Project Safe Childhood, a Department of Justice initiative launched in 2006 that coordinates federal, state, and local resources to track down and prosecute child predators.
U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg and FBI Atlanta Special Agent in Charge Marlo Graham are listed among the officials tied to the prosecution, per the same account. Federal authorities have not released the total number of victims identified nationwide, and it remains unknown how many specific social media and gaming platforms Green used to contact children.
A Pattern Federal Agencies Say Is Growing
The FBI has said this kind of exploitation is not confined to any one app or platform. “It can happen on any site, app, messaging platform, or game where people meet and communicate,” the agency said in a warning issued through its Kansas City field office.
The bureau has also flagged a sharp rise in activity from violent online networks, including one known as “764,” that target and exploit minors, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children reported that online enticement cases, including sextortion, continued to climb in 2025, with the organization receiving 1.4 million reports of online enticement that year, according to NCMEC.
Green's case shows how a single parent's report can set off a sprawling federal investigation long before the full scope of harm becomes clear. The Columbus mother who alerted police in 2022 couldn't have known her report would eventually help bring down a scheme that, per the same account, reached hundreds of girls across the country.
