With help and support, a teen can emotionally recover from the scars of having their image out there.
That same day, Jonathan Kassi, 25, was arraigned for being part of an extortion scam that was linked to the death by suicide of San Jose teen, 17-year-old Ryan Last, who had reportedly exchanged sexually revealing photos with a person he believed to be a girl. That person threatened to make those photos public unless Ryan gave them money. As the, “The monetary demands dropped in scale — eventually to $150 — after the victim communicated that he could not afford them.
The joint alert issued by the FBI, Homeland Security and NCMEC said that “law enforcement has received over 7,000 reports related to the online financial sextortion of minors, resulting in at least 3,000 victims, primarily boys, and more than a dozen suicides. These are just the reported cases. I’m sure there are thousands more that are not reported. The Cyberbullying Research Center said that 5% of teens have been the target of sextortion, and only one-third told their parents.
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