The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s CyberTipline receives reports regarding childsexual exploitation, including“sextortion”.Sextortionis a relatively new form of sexual exploitation that occurs primarily online and in whichnon-physical forms of coercionare utilized, such as blackmail,to acquire sexual content (photos/videos) of the child, obtain money from the child or engage in sex with the child. Since the CyberTiplinebegan trackingsextortion in October 2013, these reports have been on the rise. In just the first two full years, between 2014 and 2015, there was a 90% increase in the total number of reports; a pattern that has continued,with sextortion reports up 150% within the firstseveral months of 2016 compared to the number of reports in thatsame time-frame in 2014.

子ども３人に電気ショックを与えて虐待したなどとして、福岡県警は２９日、北九州市小倉南区、無職後藤孝宏容疑者（４５）を暴行と傷害の疑いで逮捕した。捜査関係者によると、子どもたちは調べに対し、１０年近く虐待を受けていたと話しているといい、県警が余罪についても調べている。