Cases of children being extorted over compromising photos have risen exponentially across the country and even faster in Chicago, the FBI said.
The FBI is warning of an “explosion” in financial extortion schemes targeting Chicago teens and boys with the threat of sharing their nude and compromising photos.
Similar “sextortion” crimes have skyrocketed exponentially across the country, the agency said in a Friday news release. But they’ve soared even faster in Chicago.Sextortion complaints rose 539% in the city from 2021 to 2022, then another 383% from 2022 to 2023, the FBI said. And that’s not even every case.
“Many victims feel shame and do not file reports. Actual sextortion case numbers could be much higher,” the agency wrote.The spike comes with a general change in sextortion crimes, the agency said. Typically, criminals targeted young women and girls in an effort to obtain sexual content, but the new goal is to obtain money, the news release warned.
The targeted victims are boys typically between 10 and 17 years old, but the schemes have targeted victims as young as 7, the agency said.Chicago Tribune editors' top story picks, delivered to your inbox each afternoon.
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