Stephen Sauer, director of Cybertip.ca at the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, says the centre is seeing more reports of young boys being extorted for compromising photos.
Boys increasingly targeted in sextortion cases: expertsExperts with the Canadian Centre for Child Protection say adolescent boys are being increasingly targeted on social media in sexual extortion cases.A new analysis from the Canadian Centre for Child Protection suggests a stark rise in sextortion crimes targeting youth, with the majority of victims being adolescent boys.
"In this case with the boys, the difference is that these individuals really don't have that sexual interest, but they have the drive to make money." "Realizing that youth, especially boys at this age, are vulnerable to manipulation tactics to get them to engage in sexual acts online … biologically, they basically move too quickly comply with these kind of requests," he said.
Daniel Lints was a 17-year-old Manitoba boy who was blackmailed after being coerced into sharing an explicit image of himself with someone online. Not long after, Daniel died by suicide. Guest host Duncan McCue talks to Daniel’s parents about what they want other families to know; and discusses the risk of online sextortion with Signy Arnason, associate executive director of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection.
"I think that's what scammers potentially are seeing, is that this type of scam, not only does it work oftentimes with young girls and young women, but it's also working with young men and with boys," he said. Some work OneChild.ca does involves destigmatizing the issue so that youth don't feel embarrassed to come forward when they are victimized, he said.
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