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How parents and teenagers can tackle 'sextortion' as online predator jailed

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UK -based safety watchdog dealing with 'self-generated' child abuse images.

Last year , the Internet Watch Foundation dealt with more than 254,000 images of child abuse.

It comes as paedophile Alexander McCartney , 26 , was given a life sentence with a minimum of 20 years in jail.

He persuaded scores of children to send him images via social media, then used these to blackmail them.

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English

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