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inanna

(3,547 posts)
Mon Jun 3, 2019, 04:15 PM Jun 2019

FBI warns parents 'sextortion' cases involving children on the rise

Source: ABC News

Jun 3, 2019, 3:41 PM ET


As the school year across the country winds down, the threat of online predators is on the increase, the FBI said.

Specifically, the FBI warns parents that they are seeing in increase in the number of sextortion cases involving minors across the country.)

Over the last five years, they say prosecutions are up 60 percent.

Sextortion is "when an adult coerces or entices a child to a minor kid under 18 to produce a sexually explicit image of themselves and then transmit that image to them on the internet," Brian Herrick, the Assistant Section Chief of the FBI's Criminal Division told ABC News.



Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-warns-parents-sextortion-cases-involving-children-rise/story?id=63450973



Idiots who do this shit should be required to have lobotomies.

Is there any "cure" for this type of criminal deviancy?
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FBI warns parents 'sextortion' cases involving children on the rise (Original Post) inanna Jun 2019 OP
The only "cure" is prison, and even then, look at George Nader's slimy record, going back decades Hekate Jun 2019 #1

Hekate

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1. The only "cure" is prison, and even then, look at George Nader's slimy record, going back decades
Mon Jun 3, 2019, 10:43 PM
Jun 2019

How about no Internet access? At all?

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