Sextortion
Sextortion of minors is when someone threatens to share a child's intimate images unless they provide money or more images. Children often feel trapped and ashamed, so knowing they can stop, save evidence, and report without blame is critical; the official resource below explains how.
The leverage is what separates it from other online threats, and it works on shame as much as on the material itself — which is why an incident can stay hidden from the adults around a child while it escalates.
This page sets out no response procedure. What to preserve, what to report and to whom is described by the organisation cited here, and differs by country.
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