A Texas man accused of creating fake online accounts to extort sexual photos and videos was arrested Thursday, Aug. 14, following a Bergen County investigation, authorities said.Quristafer D. Land, 26 ...

Snapchat logged about 20,000 cases last year of adults grooming children online, more than other social media platforms ...

The US-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children last year received 546,000 worldwide reports from tech firms ...

A 26-year-old Dallas man is facing a slate of serious charges after investigators say he posed as someone else online to coerce explicit content from a child and an adult through Snapchat in a ...

SPENCER — A three-day trial is scheduled for the former deputy charged with sextortion involving an underage victim. Jeremy Chapman, 39, Spencer, faces charges of child sexual exploitation ...

Crime Man from Africa arrested in 'sextortion' case involving a male teen from Western New York National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: Young boys are increasingly targeted.

9 new victims identified in Bucks County sextortion case, 40 more charges filed The allegations go back as far as 2016 with victims ranging in age from 12 to 19 years old.

SIOUX FALLS S.D. (KELO) — There are new developments in a sextortion case involving a man living in an South Dakota State dorm room in Brookings. Jaykob Varner, 25, signed federal court docum… ...

Brookings Institute studied 78 prosecuted cases of sextortion for its report. — -- The most common form of sextortion is "social media manipulation" according to a Brookings Institute Report ...

Cases of sextortion -- conning teens to share explicit images online and then using the images for blackmail -- have so far this year already passed the number of incidents reported in the state ...

Sextortion, a growing threat to minors, is sweeping across the nation, and becoming a significant concern in Arkansas. The Arkansas Internet Crimes Against Chil ...