FOND DU LAC, Wis. (WBAY) - A father is sharing a heartbreaking story that involves the sextortion of his child , which led his son to take his own life.
Sextortion usually involves teens who are coerced into sharing compromising pictures, and the situation often escalates.
Now, that father is sharing a warning about what happened to his family at a local high school.
Sextortion is a crime that continues to evolve with the digital age, and it’s one that parents and law enforcement alike are working to raise awareness about so fewer people fall victim to it.
The focus of the event will be a story told by John DeMay about his son, who took his own life three and a half years ago after a sextortion case, which now has two men behind bars.
He says he was not concerned with his son’s onli