Sextortion – Extortion with an S.
Michigan House Bills 5887 and 5888 make sextortion illegal in Michigan.
The law defines sextortion as a threat to create or disseminate sexually explicit images or videos of another person to coerce them.
The new law makes a first offense a felony punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment and/or a $5,000 fine, with increased penalties for subsequent offenses.
For adults victimizing minors, vulnerable adults or someone who suffers serious mental or physical harm because of the sextortion, they’d be guilty of a felony punishable by up to 25 years’ imprisonment.
A minor who engages in sextortion is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year imprisonment.
Read the laws here: Michigan House Bills 5887 and 5888
Tip: Don’t take or let anyone take naked pictures of you ever.
Questions from the interwebs…
If I am a “sex worker” and have an only fans page. My pictures are everywhere on the internet. I put them under peoples windshield wipers as samples on advertising postcards at the strip clubs, dispensaries and shopping areas.
A guy told me he was going to send a link to my family if I don’t give him free access to my page. Is that sextortion or just plain old extortion? Or is it just good old theft of intellectual property? or is it verbal assault or what?
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