1. United States
2. Minn.
3. Letter

I am writing as your constituent to demand immediate state-level legislative and prosecutorial action in response to the online criminal networks recently exposed by CNN’s months-long investigation, published March 26, 2026. The investigation documented a U.S.-based website, Motherless.com, where men upload and share videos of drugging and raping their wives and partners, sell sedatives, exchange assault tactics in organized group chats, and livestream attacks on unconscious women to paying viewers. These are not anonymous strangers. These are men living in our communities — including Minnesota — committing serial, premeditated rape and distributing evidence of it online. Minnesota law is inadequate to address this. Our nonconsensual dissemination statute (Minn. Stat. §617.261) carries a maximum felony penalty of three years. It was written for revenge porn. It was not written for organized, monetized, drug-facilitated rape networks. There is no state law that reaches the platforms enabling these crimes, no dedicated investigative infrastructure, and no sentencing framework proportionate to what these men are doing. That must change. I am demanding the following, and I expect a written response with specific commitments: 1. DIRECT THE BCA TO ACT: Instruct the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to open investigations into Minnesota residents identified in or connected to the Motherless.com ecosystem. Coordinate immediately with the FBI and international law enforcement. One arrest has already been made in Poland. Minnesota must not wait. 2. STRENGTHEN STATE CRIMINAL LAW: Introduce legislation creating a distinct felony offense for drug-facilitated sexual assault involving the production, distribution, or monetization of assault content — with minimum sentences that remove offenders from society, regardless of wealth or standing. Three years is not a sentence. It is an insult to survivors. 3. CREATE PLATFORM LIABILITY AT THE STATE LEVEL: Pass state legislation holding platforms civilly and criminally liable when they knowingly host, profit from, or fail to remove content depicting drug-facilitated rape or nonconsensual sexual assault. Federal Section 230 protections are a ceiling, not a floor — Minnesota can and must act independently. 4. PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION: Ensure that Minnesota survivors of drug-facilitated sexual assault documented on platforms like Motherless.com have a clear, enforceable private right of action against both perpetrators and the platforms that profited from their abuse. 5. FUND DEDICATED ENFORCEMENT: Allocate state funding to a specialized unit within the BCA or AG’s office with the explicit mandate to investigate and prosecute online-facilitated sexual violence. This cannot be absorbed into an existing backlog. These crimes require dedicated personnel and resources. Minnesota women deserve a state government that treats the organized, networked rape of its residents as the emergency it is. The evidence is not hidden. CNN found it. The BCA can find it too — if directed to look. I will be monitoring your response, your legislative record, and any bills you sponsor or oppose related to this issue.