'Sextortion' via Fortnite: How video games can open doors for predators
"I am seeing an increase in sextortion through online games," says Shannon Martucci, a child and adolescent forensic interviewer who works closely with FBI agents to combat online predators. "The way you have to look at it is, an offender who wants to perpetrate on children is going to go where the kids are."
Roughly 211 million Americans play video games, according to a 2018 NPD report. Of that group, 28 percent are under 18. "We [used to see] sextortion cases on Facebook because that was the medium children were using," says Greenburg Glusker partner Priya Sopori, who previously worked at the Department of Justice's Project Safe Childhood initiative, which combats technology-enabled crimes against children.
Kaufman says that the process through which predators lure minors is "like a script" where they use the same tactics over and over. "They use whatever they learned from the first victim to move on to the next victim," he says.
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