Memorial Villages police said someone is trying to make money from explicit pictures of teenagers.
The chief said after the underage student sends nude pictures of themselves to someone they believe they can trust, the stranger threatens to share it with friends.
The suspect goes as far to even include a map with a pin dropped near the victim's home, saying they know where the teen lives and has access to the victim's social media list. "It happens all the time on Instagram and now Snapchat," Marissa Aiken said. "They are getting those photos of children. I mean, it's wrong.""He really truly thought that that man behind the woman requesting those nude pictures had the ability to send those photos out to his family," Aiken said."He paid the money," she said. "I don't know if he ever told his family because he was like embarrassed.
"Go to your parents," he said. "Go to a teacher, go to a principal, go to a police officer and report it, because 99 times out of 100, it's not something you are going to be able to control as a kid.""They could have state criminal charges for anything from child pornography to extortion, and they could even be charged federally because they are exchanging this information across state lines, often using the internet, phones," he said.
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