Hello, I am sorry to bring such a dark subject to Reddit. I’m just at a bit of a loss on how to proceed, and finding myself overwhelmed with all the Google searches.
My recently turned 17 year old brother has an ex girlfriend called Layla. It has recently come to light that during their relationship last year, in which he was 15 turning 16, she had been threatening to leak an intimate nude photo of him in attempt to stop him leaving. He confessed this had happened multiple times.
They broke up over a year ago as she cheated on him, however she has now lied to his new girlfriend that he has been cheating on his new girlfriend the entire time with her. She has once again threatened to leak the intimate photo in question.
We are asking my brothers friend, in whom the conversation happened with, to provide proof of the conversation. But honestly, where do we go from here? I am appalled and sick to my stomach somebody can act so cruel and indecently.
Please be gentle with your responses. It has taken a lot for him to confess what has happened. He’s a very shy boy who fears swearing in front of his own family, let alone confessing his nudes are being threatened against him. He was a young boy at the time and unfortunately, he cannot undo what he did by sending the pictures. He can only learn for next time
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Police! It’s a serious crime to threaten and black mail someone over that! She is doing it at her age! She will do way worse latter on!
Get sluts involved who needs to be in order to end it. There are much worse things then adults knowing your a teen and did something teens do and will regret
Police, definitely… this is so not okay that that girl does something like this
Don’t dismiss this as teen drama It’s real abuse, Don’t wait if she threatens again Report it ASAP, Keep showing up for him You’re already doing an amazing job by believing him.
Sometimes the most obvious answer is the best: police.
I’m not in law enforcement so if I am incorrect in my statements feel free to correct me. If the girl is 18+ then that should be a crime but is she’s under 18 then she’s going to be treated at best as a juvenile and at worst not much more. I would get her parents or a responsible school official involved assuming the police can’t do much.
As far as your son he’s learning the repercussions of having sex at a young age and can only learn from this traumatic experience. Having sex at that age has emotional consequences that just can’t be anticipated, being blackmailed is one of them. Granted that can happen with an older couple but there’s a greater chance of that being managed.
Hoping this can somehow come to a conclusion and limit grief and embarrassment.
not a professional but i think you said it yourself in the title. he’s a minor so this is child p0rno that she has in possession.
like everyone else said, id just call the police. its not his fault and nobody should have to go through this 😕