High school sophomore Bryce Tate thought he was sending intimate photos to a girl, but received a $500 demand hours before he ...

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children says it receives almost 100 reports of financial sextortion a day.

Bohn, a teenager from Kronenwetter, outside of Wausau, died by suicide March 5, after hours of relentless blackmail threats ...

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 in ...

Snapchat is a primary platform for online predators who use “sextortion” schemes to coerce minors into sending graphic images and videos of themselves and then use the explicit material as blackmail, ...

Pike County Chief Deputy Zachary Orr is drawing attention to children and teenagers falling victim to online "sextortion" ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — Three federal cyberstalking cases that surfaced within a few days of each other in the Cincinnati area have underscored widening challenges in protecting susceptible youths from wily ...

Sextortion, a form of online exploitation targeting children, has seen a dramatic increase in reported cases. Wisconsin lawmakers are working on "Bradyn's Law" to strengthen penalties for sextortion.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — We have an update on a sextortion case – involving a man living in an SDSU dorm room. Monday, a federal judge sentenced 25-year-old Jaykob Varner to more than 15 years ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The FBI Office here in Buffalo has made an arrest in a troubling case of "sextortion" right here in Western New York with a surprising connection to Africa. Agents and prosecutors ...