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Sex slaves, bestiality, blackmail and a hint of darkness from 50 Shades of Grey were allegedly all part of a Brazilian church youth group leader’s vocabulary.

According to the Daily Mail, Roney Schelb allegedly blackmailed more than 240 women into having sex with him, other men and even animals over a four-year period across 11 Brazilian states.

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The 32-year-old, who worked as a sales rep and volunteered at a church in Muriae, was arrested earlier this month in Belo Horizante, where cops discovered documents of at least 1,600 contacts he made with women over the phone. Eight of his alleged victims were minors but the rest were teens and young and middle-aged women.

“When you talk about rape, you imagine acts of violence or something,” Schelb told police investigating his alleged crimes, according to the Daily Mail. “I never did any of that, I’m innocent.”

The Minais Gerais Civil Police allege Schelb contacted women using fake profiles on social media and WhatsApp, then offer to pay them up to US$2,400 for nude photos and videos. He gave them false wire transfer receipts and after receiving the nudie pics would allegedly blackmail them by threatening to show them to her family and friends.

Schelb allegedly met with some of his victims and raped them, often without a condom.

One victim told police she was forced to send more than 20 photos or videos a day by her blackmailer. Others told cops they were forced to have sex with other men and sometimes animals, then send him the video, while he had other sign sex contracts similar to one in the novel 50 Shades of Grey.

“He was a sadistic citizen who committed a large number of crimes. Crimes against the sexual dignity of women. Crimes against humanity,” lead investigator Magno Machado Nogueira said, according to Brazilian outlet G1.