• adrian783@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    children are incredibly easy to influence. “if you don’t do it I will find where you live and harm your family” is often enough threat.

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      The common thing I’ve seen in more well -knowncases was the abuser striking up a relationship and pretending to be somebody younger, getting compromising details/photos from the victim, then threatening to release those to family/friends unless the victim follows their wishes (which often providing further sexual images/acts).

      Not sure if that might be the case with a service like Omegle, but it was essentially what happened in the Amanda Todd case and other similar cases.