Seventeen-year-old Amina met a young man on Facebook who promised her a letter of employment. But then, there was a condition she had to fulfil before securing the job: send him her private pictures.
In desperation and hopelessly in need of a means of earning an income, she obliged. What followed was a nightmare for the girl. “After I sent them, he started to blackmail me and forced me to perform sexual acts in exchange for the employment offer,” she said.
Amina, as identified in Equality Now’s latest report on online sexual exploitation and abuse in Kenya, is one of the children who narrated their experiences in the study. The global human rights organisation established that predators are increasingly targeting children through online platforms for sexual exploitation and abuse.
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