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…