Ethan Jeffs, left and Patrick Paul Moloney are two of three men sentenced for their role in attacks on gay men targeted through the Grindr app and labelled by the trio as "paedophiles". Photo: NZ Herald / Ayla Yeoman The actions of a group of young men who posted "video montages" of assaults on gay men they had lured through Grindr have been described as "a hate crime".