There's a documentary making the rounds at screenings around the country that raises

serious questions about the safety of millions of children in America.

It's a public service announcement style film called Sex Stortion, the Hidden Pandemic.

And before we continue a quick note of warning, this episode is about the subject of child

abuse, but it does not contain descriptions of abuse or explicit language.

Now what the film sex distortion suggests is that strangers on the internet are targeting

potentially millions of miners into sharing sexually revealing pictures and videos and

often extorting them for money.

And in 2020 that number jumped up to 21.70 million cyber-submine reports received.

In the past seven years that I've been working here with the increase that we've seen

and the trends that we've seen is definitely sex distortion.

That's a clip from the film. It was made in cooperation with several law enforcement agencies.

Here's Aaron Burke, an agent with Homeland Security Investigations who was featured in the film.

She's speaking at last year's Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

This is an issue that is happening every single day in every single city across the world.

And we're just trying to fight it.

And it's gotten a lot of play from local TV news. Here's a Fox News affiliate in San Diego.

A special screening of sex torsion that hit in pandemic is happening this Thursday.

It's hard to even watch that. It's so infuriating.

But consider this.

NPR has found the documentary could leave viewers with an exaggerated sense of the risk.

An expert's on child sex abuse and human trafficking.

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