76: Protecting boys from financially motivated sexual extortion

Online sexual extortion can be financially motivated sexual extortion and blackmail using both real and AI generated images of boys and young males. Although this is not a new issue the National Crime Agency and the NSPCC has seen an increase in the last two years of boys experiencing online sexual extortion.

In this podcast episode, the NSPCC's Danielle Harris, Childline manager, discusses online sexual extortion with Marie Smith, who oversees the CEOP education programme based within the National Crime Agency.

The discussion covered:

• what online sexual extortion is
• how to spot the signs
• how to support boys who are experiencing online sexual extortion
• how to report real and AI generated images.

You can read this episode’s transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.

💬 About the speakers

Danielle Harris is the NSPCC's Childline Team Manager. Danielle has been part of the Childline family since 2018, starting out on the night service and moving up to Senior Supervisor before taking on their current role as Childline Team Manager.

Marie Smith is a Senior Manager who oversees the CEOP education programme that's based within the National Crime Agency.

📚 Resources mentioned in this episode

> View the CEOP alert for education settings on financially motivated sexual extortion

> Find out more about the Childline Behind the Screen campaign, raising awareness of the sexual coerced extortion of boys

> Read the CEOP financially motivated sexual extortion guidance for parents and carers

> Share Childline’s page for young people about trusting others online

> Find out more about Report Remove

> Read the UK government guidance on responding to incidents of sharing nudes


Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros