Family Online Safety Institute

When I was ten years old, I was the victim of online child sextortion. It all began with an email from a random stranger, claiming that he knew some mysterious secret of mine that nobody else did. He used this to hook me into continuing to email him, and later to call him, and to endure as our conversations grew increasingly explicit and he began to ask me for uncomfortable f...

Online sextortion can be difficult for both young people and their families to navigate. Parents and caregivers may not always know what to look for, what to say, or what to do if their child comes to them for help.

Created in partnership with The Safe Link, this guide helps paren...