My mother’s inferno at the hands of the UK’s worst online sex blackmail targeting nearly 2,000 victims

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A young mother who was among nearly 2,000 people targeted by an internet sex monster has vowed to help “every other woman” who has ruined her life.

Tila Blake, 24, has waived her right to anonymity for life to reveal how perverted blackmailer Abdulhasib Elahi violated her, The Mirror Reports.

The disfigured 26-year-old was jailed last week for 32 years at Birmingham Crown Court after targeting women around the world, including nearly 200 in the UK.

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Unemployed and penniless, he roamed the internet pretending to be a wealthy benefactor – tricking women into sending him his compromising pictures which he then used to force them to perform degrading acts on camera.

Esthetician Tila told the Sunday Mirror how she desperately needed money after escaping domestic violence and turned to a “sugar daddy” website while struggling to feed her son.

Just two days after recording, she was called by my god, who texted her as she put the boy to bed.

My God, who previously worked at Sparkhill, was masquerading as a London doctor named Joe Parker.

“His picture shows a good-looking middle-aged man,” she says.

“He said he wanted a slave-master relationship with me and that he would pay me £800. He never said he would be naked at first.

“He told me to be his slave would need a photo of my ID, and to videotape a nude saying I was ‘property’, stating my name and address.

Abdel Haseeb El Lahi – 26 (Photo: NCA)

“It increased the pressure. I thought I needed the money…”

In the hours that followed, my God forced Tila to send her a series of insulting videos, promising her £800 to pay off her debts.

She recalls: “I felt that I was being tortured, though he was not with me, he made me naked, and gave him my address within an hour.

“All I wanted was to feed me and my son and get settled. He knew exactly what he was doing the whole time.”

My god paid her nothing – then sold the footage and her personal data to online contacts. It ended up being shared on several X-rated adult sites, free for anyone to see.

The court heard that Elahi had made more than £25,000 selling blackmail-obtained content as sick ‘boxes’, including on the encrypted Telegram app.

He was imprisoned after pleading guilty to 158 counts in separate sessions.

In addition to making them mistreat themselves in disgusting ways, including self-mutilation, some women—not Tila—have blackmailed them into sending footage of themselves abusing young children, and making girls abuse siblings. His terrified victims felt they had no choice but to comply.

Tila Blake of Derbyshire is one of the victims of convicted Abdulhasib Elahi, an online blackmailer. (Photo: Andy Steining Mirror Richblade)

The ages of his 72 known victims ranged from eight months to adults.

Prior to her targeting, Tila had been living in a domestic violence survivor’s safe house, but had moved into social housing and had been struggling with the bills. She was earning around £100 a week in the salon, but even with income support she had to sometimes rely on food banks.

She says of a divine approach: “For some people, £800 wouldn’t seem like much – but to me at the time, it was.

“We had nothing in excess. As a parent, you would do anything.”

When he called in April 2018, she had experienced a miscarriage at 19 weeks and “was not thinking properly”. “The scale of his crimes hurts me,” says Tila. “He put my things there and I didn’t know where or who saw them.

“I didn’t want to go out. I got off social media, locked myself away – I wasn’t around. The worst part is that it’s still there and I can’t do anything.” She told how a friend suggested she sign up to find an arrangement to help with her rent and debts. Tila explains: “They said you don’t have to sleep with the guys, just send the weird picture. It seemed obvious.”

My God sent her at about eight o’clock one evening. I followed his initial instructions but he declined to pay.

Over the next ten hours, he asked her to send him a series of videos.

She remembers: “He sent me videos of other girls doing these things and said I had to do them as punishment.

“It was humiliating, but I thought he would just see them. I needed the money, I felt I had to keep going.

“He kept me up until 8 am. I kept saying I was tired and my son had nursery in the morning, but he told me if I stopped I would get nothing.”

Once his demands were over and no money came in, the shock of the violation began to sink in. Tila reported Elahi to the police – but said she was told they couldn’t track him down because he used a “hot phone”.

Days later, I was heartbroken when I learned from a friend that the photos – and their details – were on a porn site.

She says, “There were at least 70 photos of me and many videos.

I felt sick and ashamed. I requested that the footage be removed, but it will be uploaded again later.

“People I know started messaging me. My Instagram profile is attached to pictures.”

Someone said to Tella’s parents, they called right away. She says, “I broke down and told them everything. They couldn’t be more supportive.”

In the weeks that followed, she quit her job. She says: I felt embarrassed. I got depressed and my financial situation got worse.” Then in early 2019, I got a visit from the National Crime Agency. Elahi had been arrested in December 2018 for extorting a 15-year-old in the US.

The officers confiscated his mobile phone and computers and identified Tila among his victims.

She says, “I was terrified. They asked me if I would testify against him. I answered yes – this monster has literally seen everything about me and I had no idea who it was.”

Elahi has tried to contact 1,367 women in the US – and it turns out she has victims in 20 other countries including Australia, Canada and New Zealand. In an investigation of bypassing foreign jurisdictions, he was charged and returned to pretrial detention in August 2020. He confessed to 158 offenses committed between January 1, 2017 and August 7, 2020.

They include extortion, disclosure of private sexual films and images to cause distress, production and distribution of inappropriate images of children, sexual abuse of a boy, encouraging child sexual abuse, causing or inducing children to engage in sexual activity, fraud and possession of more than 65,000 photos. Inappropriate for children, including children who are raped.

Judge Sarah Buckingham called it “the worst kind of predatory offender so far identified”.

Tony Cook, who is responsible for sexual assault cases at the NCA, said: “Elahi is a corrupt sadist who obtained sexual gratification through the power and control of victims – often driven to the point of wanting to kill themselves.

It destroyed lives and families. Investigators were horrified by what he did and astonished by the industrial scale of his violation.

“The effects on the victims will last for the rest of their lives.”

Tila bravely confronted Elahi in court for reciting a victim impact statement before being sentenced.

She said, “In a way, talking to him helped me find a solution – but I still felt like he was thriving from our misery. He showed no regrets.”

I now find solace with two of my god’s other victims, ages 22 and 23, who also spoke at his sentencing.

“The things we were made to do are so degrading that we struggle to discuss them with anyone else,” she says. “We find other victims to create a great support group.”

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