Current Events > Police to conduct survey on teenagers sending nude selfies.

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The National Police Agency will conduct a survey of teenagers who have been coerced into sending nude pictures of themselves to strangers online, sources familiar with the matter said Saturday.

Expected to be launched by next March, the survey will cover some 500 youths, mostly girls under 18 who have been coerced or tricked into sending nude selfies by men they typically met on social media, according to the sources.

The victims will be asked in detail about why they sent such images, often via smartphone, as well as whether they were aware of the risks involved in doing so, the sources said.

"We will study what kind of traps were used to victimize the girls so we can make use of the knowledge obtained in promoting measures to prevent similar cases," an agency official said.

According to the agency, at least 594 teenagers and children were victims in child pornography cases detected by the police nationwide between January and June this year.

The largest single group of 263, or 44.3 percent, were coerced or tricked into sending nude selfies.

In many cases, the perpetrators passed themselves off as girls of around the same age as the victims, and exchanged messages with them to get to know potentially embarrassing details about them before demanding they send nude photos, agency officials said.

The agency will also study whether parents are taking any steps to prevent their children from sending nude photos of themselves to strangers, with questions put to 10,000 randomly selected households.

In Japan, possessing pornographic images of children is punishable by a prison term of up to one year or a fine of up to 1 million yen ($8,877).

Full Article: https://japantoday.com/category/crime/update1-police-to-probe-how-teenagers-coerced-into-sending-nude-selfies

Wait what, they pose as girls and then ask the victim to tell them embarrasing secrets... and that works?

"Hi stranger, I'm a girl, tell me humiliating things about you."

"OK!"



Erm..
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Teens are dumb and extremely naive. More at 11.
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Dumb kids shouldn't have smartphones.
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