Ohio lawmakers introduce bill to make sextortion a serious crime.

Ohio lawmakers have introduced a bill to make sextortion a serious crime. Sextortion involves convincing someone to share explicit photos of themselves, then threatening to share those pictures publicly unless the victim pays money. Lawmakers point out that the victims are typically teenage boys. And in the case of an Olentangy High School student, this can have tragic consequences. Braden Markus died by suicide in 2021. He took his own life minutes after being targeted in an online sextortion scam.