Friday, 25 Sep 2020 09:14 AM MYT
“I've been a victim of revenge porn twice ... and it was one of the most horrific things that has ever happened to me,” said Zara McDermott, a former parliamentary aide who shot to fame after appearing on the dating show“In any criminal act the threat of that act is important ... and I really think that should take that on board and really listen to victims' voices,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
One in seven young women — and one in 14 adults overall — has received threats to share intimate images, according to a poll by domestic abuse charity Refuge. She said victims who reported threats to the police were often “left in limbo” after being told no action could be taken unless the images were published.