Prosecutors: ‘Sextortion’ Cases Targeting Young Women At Alarming Rate

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – It’s extortion with a cruel twist. Prosecutors now use the word “sextortion” to describe a type of crime targeting young women at an alarming rate.
Now Sacramento’s District Attorney has opened its first cyber unit to focus on sextortion cases and others like it.
It was a secret Aria Barker was too afraid to tell anyone.
“He was threatening to send them to my mom, to my entire family that he could find on Facebook,” Barker said.
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