During the summer of 2013, a 17-year old victim of an online blackmail attempt, died after jumping off the Fourth Road Bridge near Edinburgh. The Scottish teenager became embroiled in a ‘sextortion’ scam after having online conversations with a person he believed to be a girl of his own age. The extortionist recorded explicit footage of the victim and then blackmailed him for money. ‘Sexploitation’ online is on the rise and has coincided with

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