Columbus teen who live-streamed rape now Netflix documentary star

One year ago, Marina Lonina from New Albany (who was 18 at the time) was charged with nine months in prison for obstructing justice after she live-streamed her boyfriend rape a girl on a social media app. Now, she is the focal point of a Netflix documentary episode.

“Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On” is a six-episode Netflix docuseries that explores the relationship between sex and technology. Most of the episodes tackle issues involving porn. Lonina is featured in the season closer called “Don’t Stop Filming.” The episode dives into her life after she moved to the U.S. from Moscow and the intersection between teens’ online presences and sexuality using Columbus as the scene. In an interview, she refers to the rape she live-streamed as, “the first case in history.”

The episode also takes the audience into the law office of the man who represented Lonina and how he struck a deal with Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien to keep her off the sex crime registry.

Vox called the episode, “So good that it could stand alone as a short film.”

Lonina began serving her nine months on Sunday.

For more coverage of Lonina’s sentencing, click here.

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