This story caught my attention:
Children across the world, some as young as 8 years old and many in the U.S., were blackmailed into performing sexual acts online and even forced into self-harming, British police said today.
Over the past two years, at least 424 children have become victims of the blackmail, leading to seven people taking their own lives, according to new research published today by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), a police agency in the United Kingdom….
“The online world is part and parcel of everyday life now and we will never put the genie back in the bottle,” said John Cameron, head of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) helpline in the U.K., in response to the CEOP report.
“But young people must remember that the online world is the real world,” he said in his statement. “Pictures can be distributed to thousands of people in seconds and can never be fully deleted.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/hundreds-kids-blackmailed-online-sex-acts/story?id=20321084
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