FBI Warns About ‘Explosion of Incidents’ of Sextortion of Children and Teens, Some Resulting in Suicide

By Allan Lengel The FBI and other agencies have issued an alert to be on guard against an explosion of incidents of children and teens being coerced into sending sexually explicit images online and being extorted for money. Known as “financial sextortion,” law enforcement authorities say they’ve received more than 7,000 reports of online incidents…

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Wisconsin DOJ Let 43 Child Porn Cases Languish While Predators Were Free

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Wisconsin Department of Justice let at least 43 tips about suspected child pornography languish for four months or longer, compromising the investigations and keeping children in harm’s way, an internal investigation determined. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that the number could be a lot higher, revealing a major lapse in judgment…

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