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The first hour for a parent: when your child is being sextorted

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A first-hour protocol for a parent or guardian whose child discloses sextortion, with timed steps on what to say, what to preserve and what never to copy, where to report, and when to bring in the household's security contact. Companion to CB-268. For households that want the response written down and within reach before a frightened parent has to improvise one.

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Child ProtectionHousehold & StaffHarassment & SwattingCrisis Response
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Silence is the payload: teen sextortion and protected families

The Teenage Threat You Haven't Briefed

Child-protection data recorded a sharp rise in 2025 in reports of financially motivated sextortion of teenagers, a threat indifferent to who a family is. This brief sets out the documented pattern and asks how it could reach a protected household in both directions, through the child to the house and through the house to the child, and what a family should brief before it happens. Built from official and child-protection sources. For parents and family offices.

Child ProtectionHousehold & StaffHarassment & Swatting
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