Countering Child Exploitation Resources for Parents and Carers
In the lead-up to the end-of-year school holidays, the Australian Federal Police's Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) has provided resources especially for parents and carers with information and guidance to empower you to help keep your children safe.
Online child sexual exploitation can be confronting and not an issue that you may have considered could affect you or your child. It is important that parents and carers understand what young people see, say and do online in order to know how to take action to prevent online challenges.
Sextortion is a form of online blackmail where someone tricks or coerces you into sending sexual images of yourself and then threatens to share the images unless you comply with their demands. The ACCCE is receiving around 300 reports of financial sextortion per month, with the majority of reports involving 13-17-year-olds. There are serious safety concerns for victims, with instances of self-harm attributed to this crime.
Parents and carers can go to the ACCCE website and find the following:
- Downloadable posters
- Animations
- ThinkUKnow online blackmail and sexual extortion response kit
- Messaging kits and social media assets
Click here: For parents & carers | ACCCE