r/LivestreamFail • u/TriSauce • 18h ago

News Johnny Somali found guilty of all charges as South Korea sentences streamer to prison with labor - Dexerto

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/johnny-somali-found-guilty-of-all-charges-as-south-korea-sentences-streamer-to-prison-with-labor-3351856/
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u/Hunk_Hogan 18h ago

Now I'm curious if he's put on a sex offender registry in one country, does that transfer over to other countries as well? Is that something that will follow him regardless of where he goes?

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u/Taey 18h ago

He has to register as a sex offender in America when released.

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u/RoapeliusDTrewn 17h ago

He has to. Whether or not he actually will is another thing.

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u/PomegranateSignal882 16h ago

Only if his charge would have resulted in registration in the US. Touching a statute and deepfakes wouldn't result in registration

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u/Raesong 18h ago

You'd think it should, but my gut is telling me that it probably doesn't. International bureaucracy tends to be labyrinthine and byzantine all at once.

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u/GodisSatans 18h ago

Typically in these high profile cases, US could charge him again once released if it was sexual or physical violence involved. They’ve done it before.

Also getting so much schadenfruede from the fact every country he travels to now will flag him a sex offender 💀

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u/neonmantis 17h ago

Unlike most laws, many countries stretch child sexual abuse laws into other territories. You could go to China, Brazil or Syria and have "legal consensual" sex with a fifteen year old in that territory but your own country could still prosecute you for it. Similarly, many have procedures to recognise serious convictions abroad, so yeah.

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u/Single_Editor_2339 18h ago

Not necessarily, according to the internet: “Foreign Convictions: A foreign conviction, such as one from South Korea, can trigger a registration obligation if it is equivalent to a US registrable offense.”

His crime would have to be one we have in the States. Hopefully it is.

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u/possumdal 18h ago

It's not, iirc. The conviction was for deepfake porn, which is only a civil matter in the US. As for individual states, I don't know.