A child abuse expert has called for suicide prevention plans to be automatically put in place for young victims of webcam extortion, as she warned senior police officers that increasing numbers of children were posting explicit images online. Daljeet Dagon of Barnardo’s Scotland warned Police Scotland’s first Violence Prevention conference in Glasgow on Wednesday: “We are underestimating how real that threat [of suicide] is. Dagon, who is national programme manager for child sexual exploitation in Scotland, told the Guardian that she believes suicide prevention plans should be automatically put in place at the start of any sextortion investigation involving a young person. “We are now we are getting referrals for children as young as eight or nine, who are posting explicit images or sharing them with their friends. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255.

Source: The Guardian November 29, 2017 18:22 UTC