A former policy adviser to Barack Obama was sentenced to 11 years and six months in prison for child sex crimes.
According to The Telegraph, Rahamim “Rami” Shy traveled to the United Kingdom “planning to rape a nine-year-old child.”
The 47-year-old traveled “from New York to Bedfordshire to meet an English schoolgirl,” the outlet noted.
However, he was trapped by an undercover police officer to whom he sent graphic messages about his plans.
“However, unbeknown to Shy, the girl did not exist,” Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) stated.
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— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) January 30, 2025
From The Telegraph:
He spent more than a month planning the trip and had packed his suitcases with cuddly toys and condoms, Luton Crown Court heard.
ADVERTISEMENTOn an online forum and messaging apps, Shy described the “unspeakable acts” he was planning in graphic detail to someone he believed to be the girl’s grandmother.
But the grandmother, using the name Debbie, was in fact an online decoy created by an undercover officer from Bedfordshire Police.
In his messages, Shy described the girl as a “tad late” in starting sexual activity at the age of nine, and said that it was an “honour” to be considered “her first”, the court heard.
He flew to Gatwick on Feb 23 last year then drove to Bedford to meet the undercover officer, and was promptly arrested.
His lawyers tried to claim that as he was in the US at the time of the messaging, he was jurisdictionally exempt from prosecution in the UK.
But the Crown Prosecution Service successfully argued that English courts have jurisdiction to try offences committed abroad that are intended to result in criminal offences in England.
**SHOCKING: FORMER OBAMA ADVISER JAILED FOR ATTEMPTING TO RAPE A CHILD**
Rahamim Shy—**ex-Obama counter-terror adviser**—**flew to the UK to rape what he thought was a 9-year-old girl.**
**Arrested in an undercover sting.**
— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) January 30, 2025
The National Pulse reports:
Shy coordinated the U.S. government’s response to terror groups like the Taliban and Al Qaeda and was sentenced at Luton Crown Court on Wednesday, January 29. Upon his arrest, Shy was found with children’s toys and condoms in his luggage. The nine-year-old he thought he was talking to was, in reality, an undercover police officer. He spoke with the officer online and stated that the child’s age was a “tad late” to begin the sexual activity.
Shy was also found in possession of indecent images of children on his cell phone. Messages showing his sexual interest in children were also discovered. Meanwhile, Shy’s attorneys attempted to claim that the court did not have jurisdiction because the messages were sent in the United States, but the judge overruled this.
ADVERTISEMENTThe former Obama official is just the latest leftist to be arrested or convicted of child sex offenses in Britain. Among Britain’s ruling leftist Labour Party, over 50 members, including elected officials, have been arrested for child sex offenses, from possession of child pornography to rape.
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