Streetsboro parents help advance federal sextortion bill named after their late son
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The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously Thursday to advance a bipartisan package of bills named after a Streetsboro teenager who died by suicide after falling victim to sextortion.
The James T. Woods Act is named after 17-year-old James Woods, who took his own life on Nov. 19, 2022. A predator posing as a teenage girl on Instagram convinced him to send an explicit image, then threatened to expose him if he didn't pay. He received more than 200 messages in less than 24 hours, and his parents say he saw no way out.
The bill is a package of three pieces of legislation: the Stop Sextortion Act, the Sentencing Accountability for Exploitation (SAFE) Act, and the Ending Coercion of Children and Harm Online (ECCHO) Act. Together, they would make sextortion a federal crime for the first time, update sentencing guidelines for child sexual abuse material, and create a new crime targeting groups that coerce children into harming themselves or others.
The bill was led by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) and passed by a voice vote. It now heads to the full Senate for consideration.
Lindsay Buckingham reports.
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