'The World Is Going to Be Safer': Streetsboro Parents Help Advance Federal Sextortion Bill Named After Their Late Son

'The world is going to be safer': Streetsboro parents help advance federal sextortion bill named after their late son

A bipartisan Senate committee voted unanimously to advance the James T. Woods Act, which would make sextortion a federal crime.

James T. Woods Act advances through Senate Judiciary Committee

The act is named after a 17-year old Streetsboro, Ohio, student who died by suicide after becoming a victim of sextortion on Nov. 19, 2022.

'Do It For James': Bill criminalizing sextortion clears major hurdle

A proposed new federal law, that was inspired by the suicide of a Streetsboro High School student victimized by the online crime known as sextortion, cleared a major hurdle on Thursday.