Spike in young men being extorted over intimate images

SpunOut.ie has been contacted by young men looking for assistance after they exchanged intimate photos online with someone they believed to be another young person.

A number of young men across the country have recently had to seek help because they were facing intimate image abuse from online fraudsters.

Ian Power of SpunOut.ie told the Oireachtas education committee that the youth NGO has been contacted by young men looking for assistance after they exchanged intimate photos online with someone they believed to be another young person.