The producers, Maria and Stephen Peek, first heard about sextortion in 2019 and the devastating impact it was having on children. They secretly coerce their underage victims to produce sexual images, to have sex with them or give them money.” They don’t need a key to get in just a device connected to the internet. “Sexual predators have found a way to extort children in the privacy of their homes. “Everyone should watch this documentary,” said John Shehan, vice president of NCMEC’s Exploited Children Division. The film was also done in partnership with NCMEC and will be available for wide distribution later this year. The documentary, which was produced by the award-winning Auroris Media production company, highlights one of the largest international sextortion cases investigated by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Justice Department. The producers have dedicated their documentary in memory of Amanda Todd and to all victims of sextortion. The film will have its world premiere at the prestigious Santa Barbara Film Festival on March 3. Now a powerful new documentary, “Sextortion: The Hidden Pandemic,” shows how child predators target their victims on the internet and tells the story of a Navy Top Gun pilot who groomed hundreds of children all over the world and extorted them for explicit sexual images. Today, nearly 10 years later, reports of sextortion to our CyberTipline have skyrocketed here at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Her video instantly went viral, and millions of people learned about sextortion which was, at the time, a relatively new kind of online enticement. She ended her life at her home in Canada on Oct. He was true to his word.Ī month after sharing her story on YouTube, Amanda’s pain became unbearable. He later threatened her to “put on a show for me” or he’d share the topless image online with everyone she knows. Her new online friend had told her she was “stunning, beautiful, perfect” and convinced her to flash her breasts on her webcam. Instead, the 15-year-old holds up flashcards, and the words she’s written on them become more painful to read as she works her way through the stack in her hands.Ī chance meeting in a chat room on the internet would send Amanda, then a 13-year-old, spiraling to the depths of depression over the next two years and make her the target of cruel cyberbullies. Amanda Todd tells her harrowing, “never-ending” story about being a victim of sextortion to warn other children – without ever saying a word.
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