Suicide prevention plan needed for child victims of 'sextortion', expert says

Barnardo’s Scotland warns police that risk of suicide is underestimated among children falling for sextortion gangs online

A child abuse expert has called for suicide prevention plans to be automatically put in place for young victims of webcam extortion, as she warned senior police officers that increasing numbers of children were posting explicit images online.

Daljeet Dagon of Barnardo’s Scotland warned Police Scotland’s first Violence Prevention conference in Glasgow on Wednesday: “We are underestimating how real that threat [of suicide] is. We don’t understand how embarrassing this can be for young people.”

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from Children | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2AlWuKD