Sextortion Awareness

Sextortion has become a key topic of concern for 5-stones Fox Valley, Appleton, WI. Our primary focus has been Sex Trafficking for several years, but as of the fall of 2025, we added Sextortion to our presentation programs.

In March of 2025, four of our volunteers attended a presentation on Sextortion. We heard a powerful story of John DeMay, a Michigan father whose 17-year-old son, Jordan, tragically lost his life to online Sextortion.

John’s focus is to share with parents and guardians what Sextortion is, raise awareness of this fastest growing threat facing today’s youth, and provide warning signs to watch for to protect youth and their families.

Sextortion is an online crime facing today’s youth. Predators threaten all genders; the key focus is on financial/sexual images or videos. Impacting teenage males primarily for financial extortion and females for sexual images or videos. The Predators use deception, manipulation, money/ gifts, or threats to convince the youth to produce explicit videos or images.

Today’s youth feel compelled to meet the predators’ demands or the predator will ultimately publish images of the minor to friends and family, forcing the young person to face the decision to SUCCUMB to the predators’ demands or GET HELP.

5-stones will provide a list of ways to get help if you are threatened by Sextortion:

* Put your phone on airplane mode or shut down your device

* Don’t alert the predator; you know about them

* Don’t delete photos-screen shot them

* Go to a trusted person / tell them what is happening

* Don’t share with anyone other than law enforcement – local law enforcement, take the device, ask for a cybercrime unit

* Report to the NCMEC (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children).

* Seek help to remove the photos through the Take It Down Act

We are also hosting a SEXTORTION AWARENESS presentation on Tuesday, April 21st, at Fox Valley Technical College in Oshkosh, and again on Wednesday, April 22nd, at Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton. Admission is FREE, but registration is required.

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