There is an organization that works to stop child-trafficking and performs investigations on predators and holds seminars on this topic called ERASE. Curiously however, not much has come out of government about it outside of the FBI and Hillary has never made mention of it.
For to listen to a podcast on this topic with a top FBI investigator:
also here:
A Call to Action: Ending ‘Sextortion’ in the Digital Age
Author: Thomson Reuters Foundation, Legal Momentum and Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe LLP
Throughout the world, those in power extort vulnerable women and girls by demanding sex, rather than money. “Sextortion” is a pervasive yet under-reported form of corruption involving sexual exploitation: judges demanding sex in exchange for visas or favorable custody decisions, landlords threatening to evict tenants unless they have sex with them, supervisors making job security contingent on sex, and principals conditioning student graduation on sex. Today the crime has become digital and cyber-sextortion is rapidly on the rise.
In 2015, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, in collaboration with the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ), launched a guide: “Combating Sextortion: A Comparative Study of Laws to Prosecute Corruption Involving Sexual Exploitation.” The study outlined laws and practices relating to the crime in nine jurisdictions, spanning six continents. This new report was borne out of that research, and takes a more specific look at the United States and at how sextortion has evolved.
Despite increasing recognition from law enforcement agencies that sextortion exists and that it is indeed on the rise—the United States lacks adequate legal solutions to ensure justice for victims. This leaves women and young girls vulnerable at the hands of those willing to abuse their power, and—increasingly—online predators.
“A Call to Action: Ending ‘Sextortion’ in the Digital Age” shines a spotlight on the growing threat of sextortion, and highlights how easy it is to infiltrate computers to record and steal sexual imagery. The report calls for public education to help prevent sextortion and provides concrete examples of revisions to existing criminal statutes in order to combat this rapidly developing crime.
The report is an innovative collaboration between Legal Momentum and Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe LLP facilitated by TrustLaw, the global pro bono programme of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
We hope this study becomes a powerful tool to raise public awareness about sextortion, and to support legislators, advocates and citizens in the fight to end this shameful practice in the United States and beyond.
Read the report: A CALL TO ACTION: Ending “Sextortion” in the Digital Age, JULY 2016
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Sextortion. A new word but a very old concept: it is a widespread form of
corruption in which sex, not money, is the currency of the bribe. The perpetrator
asks for sex instead of cash. Today the crime has become digital and cybersextortion
is spreading fast.
In 2015, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, in collaboration with the
International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ), launched a guide:
“Combating Sextortion: A Comparative Study of Laws to Prosecute Corruption
Involving Sexual Exploitation.” The study outlines laws and practices relating
to the crime in nine jurisdictions, spanning six continents. This new report was
borne out of that research, and takes a more specific look at the United States
and at how sextortion has evolved.
Despite increasing recognition from law enforcement agencies that sextortion
exists and that it is indeed on the rise—the United States lacks adequate
legal solutions to ensure justice for victims. This leaves women and young
girls vulnerable at the hands of those willing to abuse their power, and—
increasingly—online predators.
In the United States, in fact, sextortion has proliferated in the digital age.
Traditionally, the crime was perpetrated by abusers who knew their victims, but
today perpetrators hack into personal computers and smart phones to obtain
private information (including sexual images) and then demand sex or more
sexual imagery. Many perpetrators have abused multiple, even hundreds, of
victims. Victims are powerless. When they have not complied, perpetrators have
released sexual images to the victims’ friends, family members, congregations,
teachers, co-workers, and the world at large, via the Internet.
Women and girls are disproportionately impacted by cyber-sextortion.
Predators exploit digitally-savvy children and teenagers, often by pretending
to be peers on social networking sites. Using false identities, offenders
manipulate children and teenagers to give them information or images that
the victims would not want friends, family or their school community to know
about. Predators then use these images to demand sex or more sexual images.
