Brocoli created multiple Instagram and Twitter handles, using the woman’s parents’ names then posed as the victim’s father and mother online.
He also used the internet to post comments to the victim’s mother, calling her a “pedophile,” commenting that she needed “to be arrested for child abuse,” and telling her to “shut up and die.” Brocoli also posted to the victim’s father that he would “be the first to go to hell and answer to the real God when the time comes.”
When confronted by federal authorities with evidence of cyberstalking, Brocoli blamed it on his recently deceased grandmother.
David M. DeVillers, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, and Chris Hoffman, Special Agent in Charge, FBI, Cincinnati Division, announced the sentence imposed Friday evening, July 24, by Chief U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley. Special Assistant United States Attorney Christopher N. St. Pierre represented the United States.
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