Convicted Stalker in Grindr Revenge Porn Case Is a Woman Who Posed As Gay

A gay man in Britain was stalked online and in real life, as was his new boyfriend, after he broke it off with someone he met on Grindr. But the man harassing them by sending intimate photos to friends and family members and making false criminal claims to the police about them turned out, in reality, to be a woman, the BBC reports.

Sky News reports that the unnamed victim first came into contact with a French woman named Yannick Glaudin via Grindr in May of 2017. The two exchanged messages and intimate images until the man started to suspect that his Grindr friend - who went by the name Steven St Pier on the app - might not be who he claimed to be, and broke off contact in December.

But Glaudin began to use a number of aliases and social media platforms to cyberstalk and harass the man, including sending sexual imagery he had shared with her to members of his family, as well as to his friends. When the man began a new relationship in February of 2018, Glaudin's harassment reportedly extended to include the new boyfriend, with Glaudin allegedly contacting the police with fabricated accusations of pedophilia against the boyfriend.

The harassment bled over from the digital realm into the real world, as well. British newspaper The Guardian reported that someone using the first victim's name had arranged sexual liaisons online, with the result that men expecting an intimate experience showed up at the man's home.

The man's (for former) boyfriend told the press:

"The perpetrator has accused me personally of being a pedophile, impersonated me and my partner online via dating applications, sent multiple strangers to my home demanding anonymous sex, followed me ... home, and taken photographs of our front door and taunted us about it."

Glaudin was sentenced to a year for distributing the intimate photos, reports said, and was also sentenced to concurrent sentences for "harassment" and for "stalking."