{"id":41871,"date":"2025-08-10T07:06:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/fbi-and-nspcc-alarmed-at-shocking-rise-in-online-sextortion-of-children-16\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T07:06:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:06:25","slug":"fbi-and-nspcc-alarmed-at-shocking-rise-in-online-sextortion-of-children-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/fbi-and-nspcc-alarmed-at-shocking-rise-in-online-sextortion-of-children-16\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI and NSPCC alarmed at \u2018shocking\u2019 rise in online sextortion of children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snapchat logged about 20,000 cases last year of adults grooming children online, more than other social media platforms combined<\/p>\n<p>Tech companies including Snapchat and Facebook reported more than 9,600 cases of adults grooming children online in the UK in just six months last year \u2013 the equivalent of about 400 a week.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the UK\u2019s National Crime Agency (NCA), have grown increasingly alarmed about the growing threat from sextortion and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/04\/social-media-battles-and-barbs-on-both-sides-of-atlantic-over-uk-online-safety-act\">crimes targeting teenagers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/aug\/09\/fbi-nspcc-alarmed-shocking-rise-online-sextortion-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snapchat logged about 20,000 cases last year of adults grooming children online, more than other social media platforms combined Tech companies including Snapchat and Facebook reported more than 9,600 cases of adults grooming children online in the UK in just six months last year \u2013 the equivalent of about 400 a week. Law enforcement agencies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}