Snapchat logged about 20,000 cases last year of adults grooming children online, more than other social media platforms ...

The US-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children last year received 546,000 worldwide reports from tech firms ...

Cases of sextortion -- conning teens to share explicit images online and then using the images for blackmail -- have so far this year already passed the number of incidents reported in the state ...

Sextortion, a growing threat to minors, is sweeping across the nation, and becoming a significant concern in Arkansas. The Arkansas Internet Crimes Against Chil ...

The FBI is investigating a Kansas child's suicide as a case of financial sextortion and believes the perpetrator is targeting ...

On the state level, the increase in sextortion cases has been even more significant. "We have seen a rise. Last year, we had 169 for the whole year that were that came into our cyber tip line portal.

Sergeant Corwin Battle, Commander of the Arkansas ICAC Task Force, warns that children as young as seven are being targeted online. He noted a "sharp increase in sextortion cases involving minors." ...

Jamie and her family later found out that Landen had become a victim of sextortion through Snapchat. "I'm going to be honest, when this happened to our family, I had no idea what this was," she says.

Crime Man from Africa arrested in 'sextortion' case involving a male teen from Western New York National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: Young boys are increasingly targeted.

SPENCER — A three-day trial is scheduled for the former deputy charged with sextortion involving an underage victim. Jeremy Chapman, 39, Spencer, faces charges of child sexual exploitation ...

SIOUX FALLS S.D. (KELO) — There are new developments in a sextortion case involving a man living in an South Dakota State dorm room in Brookings. Jaykob Varner, 25, signed federal court docum… ...

According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, there were 139 cases of sextortion in 2021. By 2023, there were over 26,000 cases reported. That is an 18,000% increase in the ...