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Suicide of Kentucky teen investigated as financial sextortion

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A warning to readers that this story contains discussions of suicide and sensitive sexual subject matter. In southern Kentucky, the Barren County community is grieving the unthinkable. Local teenager Eli Heacock died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound last month and investigators are looking into what role a financial sextortion scheme played in the death. Family and friends say Heacock was like many 16-year-olds. He loved to laugh, play sports, …

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Beshear signs ‘sextortion’ bill, increases criminal penalties

By MICHAEL CRIMMINS Glasgow News 1 Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear signed Senate Bill 73 earlier this month, increasing the penalty for those who commit sexual extortion. The law creates a new section of Kentucky Revised Statute 531 that adds certain criteria, like actions of the victim or background of the perpetrator, that increases a sexual extortion offense from a class A misdemeanor to a class D felony. It further states that if the victim a…

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