Somebody gets an image from your child, then threatens to send it to everyone they know unless they pay. It moves fast, it targets boys most, and the way you react decides whether your child tells you.
Most people expect hidden software. Almost every real case is far more ordinary than that, and sits in a setting somebody switched on years ago.
They genuinely help a lot of families. They also do nothing at all for some, and there is one thing none of them touch, which is the channel most parents forget about.
A parent arrives with ninety seconds of audio that proves everything. The file usually holds more than that, and sometimes less, and almost nobody asks which.
Almost every control that used to need a front door now runs through a device. The difficulty for a family law team is that most of it looks exactly like an ordinary family sharing a phone plan.
Two parents describe the same child and the accounts do not match. The child’s phone usually holds a dated record that neither parent can produce from memory.