Khaberni - After horrific crimes that shook Egypt and caused terror, an Egyptian court yesterday evening, Saturday, issued harsh judgments in the case known to the media as "Dark Web Boy", thus concluding one of the most bloody and horrific cases in the history of new crimes through cyberspace.
The court sentenced the main suspect, "Ali Al-Din Mohamed Ali Al-Zayat", known as "Dark Web Boy", to 15 years in prison for his involvement in the murder of a Shubra el-Kheima child and human trafficking.
Shocking video clips
With this new sentence, the total penalties issued against the suspect amount to 45 years in prison, following two previous verdicts against him from Shubra el-Kheima criminal court, specifically in March 2025, and Alexandria criminal court (January 2025 which included sentencing four other suspects to severe imprisonment for ten years each and a fine of 200,000 Egyptian pounds each, on charges relating to human trafficking, attempted murder, and indecency.
During the session, difficult moments were witnessed as the prosecution displayed "shocking" video clips revealing the luring of children aged between 14 and 16 years, drugging them, and filming them in inappropriate positions under the directives of the main suspect "via video".
The investigations also revealed a terrifying aspect of the main suspect, who not only violated the dignity of his victims and filmed them for sale on the "dark net", but also incited other suspects in one of the clips to kill one of the victims by "cutting his arteries" after stripping him in a torture room. However, the suspects refused to execute the murder order and limited their actions to assaulting him.
"Criminal tendency"
Meanwhile, the psychological medical report settled the debate over the mental capacity of the suspect, confirming the absence of any psychological or mental disorder that would diminish his understanding at the time of committing the crimes. It clarified that the suspect possesses a "criminal tendency" making him fully responsible for his heinous acts.
The roots of the case go back to the incident that terrorized Egypt in 2024, when the body of a child was found in "Shubra el-Kheima", north of Cairo, split in half and emptied of internal organs. It turned out that the suspect Tarek, one of those involved in the case and who worked at a café claiming to suffer from cancer to gain neighbors' sympathy, slaughtered the young child and removed his internal organs like the liver, kidneys, and spleen based on an agreement with "Dark Web Boy" residing in Kuwait in exchange for 5 million EGP.
Meanwhile, the instigator, "Dark Web Boy", aimed through filming these horrific scenes and mutilating the corpses to sell the recordings via "dark web" platforms that broadcast bloody content for large sums of money.
