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Family of sextortion speak to ITV news as cases soar by 54%
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Published 2 weeks ago - Duration: 00:42s
Family of sextortion speak to ITV news as cases soar by 54%
In their first interview, the parents of a sixteen-year-old boy who took his own life just hours after he was blackmailed by a scammer have told ITV News their "whole world has been shattered".
Murray Dowey, 16, from Dunblane was contacted on social media by someone claiming to be a young girl but was actually a scammer, who tricked him into sending an intimate image and then blackmailed him with it.
Sextortion, is when intimate images and/or videos are recorded and used for financial exploitation and coercion.
It is mostly committed by organised criminal gangs overseas.
Report by Covellm.
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Non-physical forms of coercion to extort sexual favors from the victim
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