The team helping the victims of revenge porn
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
It was set up when revenge porn was made a crime in 2015 – and this year alone, has handled more than 10,000 calls or reports online.
The team in Devon has allowed our news cameras inside for the first time to see the work they do.
On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood speaks to our home news correspondent Dan Whitehead about the scale of the problem, and Sophie Mortimer, Revenge Porn Helpline manager, gives us an insight into what her team is doing to support victims.
If you have been a victim of revenge porn, you can contact the helpline on 0345 6000 459 or click here.
Podcast producer: Soila Apparicio
Interviews producer: Melissa Tutesigensi
Promotion producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:07.2 | How would you feel if an intimate video or image that you'd sent to someone you trusted appeared online for all the world to see. Well, that is becoming increasingly common, |
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| 1:20.5 | begin? Well, you won't believe this, but there's actually only one organisation to call that's |
| 1:26.5 | currently providing help for victims of revenge porn. |
| 1:30.5 | It's a tiny office based in Devon in the UK, run by a small handful of women who've now become |
| 1:36.9 | experts in this field. They've addressed the UN, taken calls from the White House, and they |
| 1:42.8 | travel the world advising governments on this crime. |
| 1:46.2 | Sky News has had exclusive access to their services, and this Sky News Daily with me, Sally Lockwood, |
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