Online Child Sextortion: Lessons from a Teen Survivor
When I was ten years old, I was the victim of online child sextortion. It all began with an email from a random stranger, claiming that he knew some mysterious […] The post Online Child Sextortion: Lessons from a Teen Survivor appeared first on Family Online Safety Institute.
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A teenager shares their experience of being victimized by online sextortion starting at age ten, when a stranger manipulated them through email and phone into sending explicit photos by claiming to have damaging secrets. The article describes how this predatory behavior escalated over weeks into a pattern of coercion and exploitation.
When I was ten years old, I was the victim of online child sextortion. It all began with an email from a random stranger, claiming that he knew some mysterious secret of mine that nobody else did. He used this to hook me into continuing to email him, and later to call him, and to endure as our conversations grew increasingly explicit and he began to ask me for uncomfortable favors. Over the next few weeks, my life fell into a pattern. Everyday, I would send photo after photo to this stranger onl...