Child sexual extortion case shows importance of parents not judging

“[Perpetrators] know exactly what to say, how to get those young children completely panicked that their reputation is ruined and their life is over, with these photos out in the public domain with their friends and family seeing them,” ECPAT NZ Director Eleanor Parkes comments on this child sexual extortion case. NZ and Australian victims were among thousands of children who were targeted, groomed and then blackmailed by a man in Ireland described as one of the world’s most prolific online child abusers.

As one of our Board members, Gemma Livingston, says: “The internet knows no geographic boundaries.”