From Global News–The Manitoba RCMP’s internet child exploitation (ICE) unit has been inundated with cases of online child sexual abuse, exploitation, in particular, sextortion.
“These types of files are coming in regularly. Almost daily,” Const. Izza Mian with the Manitoba RCMP ICE unit told Global News and 680 CJOB. “There is an exponential increase. Sextortion has been in the media quite a bit, that is probably the number one file that we see coming into our office. We get roughly a couple of those a day up until 14 plus a week.”
Mian says the sextortion cases usually involve an unknown adult communicating with a child online until a sense of trust or familiarity is built.