The FBI is warning about a continuous rise in the sexual extortion of minors online.

Foreign actors specifically target teen boys in financially motivated schemes and have been linked to dozens of suicides.

In this episode, we'll hear from a lawmaker whose son tragically took his own life after being targeted

and the CEO of a nonprofit teaming up with law enforcement to stop child exploitation.

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley.

It's Saturday, April 12th, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.

Here to discuss the rising threat of sex exploitation is Daily Wire reporter Amanda Presta Jocamo.

So Amanda, you've had several conversations with some of the key folks who are tackling this issue.

One of them is Representative Guffey, whose son Gavin tragically took his own life

after being threatened by an online scammer. He's now working to hold these predators and social

media companies accountable. What did he tell you? Hey, Georgia. Yeah, Guffie has really become a

warrior in this space since Gavin passed in 2022. He was able to get Gavin's law passed just a year after he

lost Gavin, and he's currently working with fellow Republican Senator Ted Cruz on Cruz's

bipartisan bill called the Take It Down Act. That would force social media companies to take down

sexual images of minors within 48 hours of it being flagged. Guffie shared Gavin's story with me when I spoke to him this past week.

My son Gavin was contacted by a predator through Instagram messaging. He jumped off the video game

with friends to have a chat with this female or so he thought. They began to share images.

And within one hour and 40 minutes, Gavin took his life.

They began to demand money, giving countdowns, but even worse than that, after my son took his life.

I'd never heard of what extortion was or had a clue of what it was.

After his son passed, Guffie told me that his family was contacted by the scammers for more

money, and he was even taunted about Gavin committing suicide. They began to extort Gavin's 16-year-old

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