DURHAM POLICE DEPARTMENT: Preventing Sextortion Among Youth

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DURHAM POLICE DEPARTMENT: Preventing Sextortion Among Youth
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Feb 14, 2022
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Durham Police Department issued the following announcement on Feb. 14.

If you need a dinner time family discussion topic, this one could do it! As a reminder today is #SaferInternetDay.

With so many young ones with devices that connect them to Social Media, its never to early to #StartTheConversation about sextortion.

“Sextortion” is an online exploitation crime directed towards children in which coercion or blackmail is used

Learn more at http://ow.ly/sF3X50HPUAU

 Original source can be found here.

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Source: Durham Police Department

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