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More than 60 Scots kids targeted by scheming sextortionists in just 12 months

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children were the victims of sextortion in one 12-month period, according to new figures. The growing crime involves sexually intimate images obtained through webcam chats or other online means being used to extort money from people.

Data obtained from Police Scotland show there were 737 cases reported to them between April 2019 and March 2020. Of that total, 670 victims were adults and 67 were under the age of 16.The number being reported to the police has risen from an average of 40 a month in 2017 to 70 a month last year.

One of the most shocking cases involved 17-year-old Daniel Perry, from Dunfermline. The apprentice mechanic fell from the Forth Road Bridge in 2013 after becoming a victim of an online sextortion fraud in which he.

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