The website administrator then demanded $10,000 to refrain from reporting Musbach to law enforcement.
When Musbach eventually requested a refund, the complaint says, the 'hitman' disclosed his business was a scam. Mom sues after being charged with murder Chicago mom accused of telling son to shoot man sues police after murder charges droppedĪccording to a criminal complaint, Musbach made the payment after the website's administrator told him a 14-year-old was not too young to be killed. Musbach paid $20,000 in bitcoin to the operator of a website that offered murder-for-hire services, but the purported 'hitman' simply kept the money and did nothing to the boy.
He wanted to prevent the boy from testifying at a trial for endangering the welfare of a child, authorities alleged. Musbach sought a hitman in 2016 to kill a New York boy whom he had victimized in an online child-pornography crime one year earlier, prosecutors said.
John Michael Musbach, 34, of Haddonfield, must also pay a $30,000 fine, according to the U.S. A Kentucky man was sentenced to more than six years in prison for trying to arrange the murder of a 14-year-old boy to prevent the teen from testifying against him in a trial.
