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AIC: New research finds one in 10 Australian adolescents surveyed had experienced sexual extortion

Link to: Sexual extortion of Australian adolescents: Results from a national survey

New research from the Australian Institute of Criminology examined sexual extortion victimisation by conducting a survey of 1,953 adolescents aged 16 to 18 years residing in Australia, finding that:

Over one in 10 of the adolescents surveyed had been sexually extorted in their lifetime (11.3%), most of whom (88.2%) were under the age of 18 when victimised.
Boys and girls were equally likely to be sexually extorted, but male victims were more likely to receive financial demands and to be targeted by someone they had only met online.
Preventing children from being sexually extorted should be a priority for social media and messaging platforms, and should be a collaborative effort across multiple sectors.