To think the police won't do anything

[namechange10111]

My ex when I was 15 years old secretly videoed us having sex. Now, at the age of 22 he paid a porn page on twitter to post the video and got it sent to my partner. The video got 4k views and everyone our age in the area is probably sharing it around and talking about it. I've reported this to the police but I'm scared they won't do anything to charge him with anything because before they arrest him they need evidence that he's the one that's released the video.

This is extremely detrimental to my career and words cannot even explain my emotions right now. I feel to try to get in contact with him to ask him why he did it but he'll probably try to hide any evidence so I'm not going to before I hear back from the police.

Does anyone have any idea on what I can do to get justice?

Has the video been taken down now?

Absolutely contact the police - it would be an offence if you were over 18 in the video, but as you were a minor I would expect them to take it even more seriously!!

No it's not been taken down. I did report it on twitter but yeah I reported it to the police yesterday

I would certainly hope they did something!! I can't even imagine how you must feel.

It is a shocking violation and the fact that you were a minor means people are viewing and sharing child sexual abuse.

I hope you are doing okay under the circumstances and it would be disgusting if the police do not do anything.

Revenge porn is a crime and if you’ve flagged to Twitter that they are hosting pornographic material involving a minor, I’m deeply surprised they haven’t removed it in a hurry, they’ll be in immense hot water if they don’t take action. The police should also treat it with seriousness.

I am so so so sorry you are going through this. What a psychopath to even consider doing that 7 years later, clearly a bitter sad man

He’s released child pornography I would assume they would take this VERY seriously- and I would report this to twitter as child pornography as well.

there is also laws that do not allow you to do this now- it’s termed as revenge porn even if you participated willingly.

Also if he was stupid enough to pay a porn page they would have his card details and the police would be able to get these and track him down from that.

im sorry this is happening to you and I would have thought that the page in question should have taken it down immediately once they were informed the video was not shared or made consensually (you weren’t aware of it) and that you were under 18 in the video. I would also inform the police that the site/page is aware of this and have not removed the video.

I hope your okay @namechange10111

How old was he when they were taken? I'm sorry you are going through this.

Im so sorry you’re going through this OP, he’s a vile individual. Go to the police

Yes the police will investigate. I'm sorry that scumbag did that to you.

I would assume as you are both under 18 in that film and he is now an adult that's sometime like 'distributing child pornography'

I have no idea if the law but even sending sexual pictures underage to someone else underage comes under this.

The fact you where 15 at the time means he's distributed child pornography this is very serious and illegal the police will absolutely help in this situation have you rang 101 and informed them

Im so sorry this has happened to you, I hope the police take this very seriously indeed.

That's revenge porn, child porn and malicious harassment.

I'd say they'd be very interested in an adult sharing non consenting child pornography on social media.

They should do something, you could also report to CEOP which is for online protection.

www.ceop.police.uk/Safety-Centre/

I'm sorry you are going through this. Hopefully the police will be in touch soon and will take it seriously. I'm glad you reported it as it should now flag up if a current partner makes a Claire's law request.

Oh God you poor thing. What a vile human he is.

I hope you are ok. Well you probably aren’t right now but you will be. You’ve done NOTHING wrong.

I really hope the police take it seriously. Given your age at the time the should do. I hope they throw the book at him.

Also if anyone mentions it to you, just say you are as just as surprised them that he would distribute child/revenge porn but I guess you really never know a person and its a police matter so you cannot comment.

It’s images of child sex abuse simply due to the fact of your age, yes they should take it extremely seriously and anyone who judges YOU for this video is reprehensible as you were a child.

What the hell was he thinking?

Also, if anyone mentions it to you, I would say, I really hope you haven’t shared it with anyone or viewed it because viewing and sharing images of child sexual abuse is illegal, and you’ve reported him posting it to the police so it’s going to be investigated (whether you have confirmation from the police or not I’d still say that!) That’ll soon get people to re-frame the reality of this in their minds.

There's a lot of aspects to this that will make him regret his actions.
1 making and distributing child pornography is going to be easy to prove.
2 revenge porn - I'm not sure of the laws on this, but it can be hard to hit the evidence threshold. But it's probably moot compared point 1.

1. The malicious communications act, again tough to prove, but point 1 trumps it.

Id imagine the police will be interested in what else he might have in / on his hard drives.

I'm guessing / hoping you've been to the police, but you should still consult a lawyer regarding damages and getting the videos taken down.

I would imagine they would take it seriously. Distributing child pornography he could well end up on the sex offenders register

I'm so sorry that's awful.

You could phone rape crisis for support. It's not just for rape but for other sex crimes like this.

Please, please, don't get in contact with him. You'll make it much harder for the police to use a range of charges that they currently can, and complicate the situation for the courts.

I have to post and run right now, but I'm involved currently in a case of harassment, and so called revenge porn that all happened over one week.

The video was previously made consensually and they were both adults, he sent it to her husband when she broke of the affair.

He denied sending it and various messages because he's into tec and believed the evidence self erased and they wouldn't be able to find proof. Trust me there's lots of ways and these men aren't as smart as they think they are.

The police have taken it very seriously, and he's denied bail and been remanded in custody over a month, while they went looking for that evidence.

As whats happened to you was made non consensually and is of an underage rvictim, I should think they'll take it very seriously indeed.

There are actually so many different charges that can be thrown at him for this, which is why I'm saying please don't contact him, because right now there is a clear trail of an out of the blue malicious communication offense, and harassment, just as a starting point. You want the charges that attract the highest sentencing options, and you might muddy those waters if you get in contact.

I realize you must be feeling awful, but everyone involved in the events I'm caught up in have nothing but sympathy for the woman this has been done to, btw, and her situation and circumstances are rather more awkward and question raising than yours.

I personally would feel quite empowered he will be very soon feeling the full extent of the law..
He sadly feels he holds all the cards.
He really doesn't..
As you both will soon see.

Remember you haven't done anything wrong op.