A US teenager who blackmailed fellow students at his secondary school to have sex after using their Facebook images has agreed a plea bargain.
Anthony Stancl, 19, who pleaded "no contest" to repeated sexual assault of a child - faces up to 50 years in jail.
He allegedly posed as a girl online and then asked classmates in Wisconsin to send him their naked pictures - using them later to blackmail them for sex.
Mr Stancl told the court he had been on medication for depression for years.
The case came to light after a 16-year old told the authorities he was being blackmailed for sex.
After exchanging explicit pictures of himself with Mr Stancl when he was 15, the boy had been told the images would be distributed around the school if he refused to have sex.
The boy's images were among about 300 such pictures and videos of other male students at New Berlin Eisenhower High School in south-east Wisconsin police found on Mr Stancl's computer.
Waukesha County district attorney Brad Schimel said he was satisfied with the plea deal, which spared victims from having to appear in court - a key factor in his negotiations, the Associated Press news agency reported.
"I've never had a case where the victims and their families were more apprehensive about testifying," Mr Schimel was quoted by AP as saying.
"From the victims' perspective, they're relieved we're doing this."
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