WESTON, Wis. — A new bill was signed into law on Monday that criminalizes sexual extortion in Wisconsin.

Gov. Tony Evers signed "Bradyn’s Law," Assembly Bill 201, now 2025 Wisconsin Act 48, in honor of the late Wausau-area resident Bradyn Bohn, 15, who took his own life earlier this year as a result of sexual extortion.

This act, defined by the FBI as an offender coercing a minor to create and send sexually explicit images or videos to extort the victim by threatening to release the material, has been modified to expand the Wisconsin Department of Justice's crime victim compensation program to include death by suicide or attempted suicide among the acts that may be compensated.

Bradyn's Law will include graduated penalties for offenses depending on the offender, the act, and the victim'

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