Michael Jafferakos was a youth basketball coach and intramural basketball commissioner for the Our Lady of Grace Athletic Association. Predators go where the children are. He has been sexually exploiting children to create child sexual abuse material or CSAM.
In interviews, Jafferakos admitted he paid multiple minors, some as young as fourteen, to produce CSAM over several years. He also confessed to sharing some of the CSAM with others for money.
The investigation began when a mother in Wisconsin found a sexually explicit video on her son’s phone. Further investigation revealed Jafferakos met the boy on SnapChat and induced him to make a sexually explicit video which Jafferakos paid him for. He had paid him fifteen times over some months.
Investigators have found two victims from the program where he coaches.
He is currently being held without bail and faces a minimum of fifteen years in prison if convicted.
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