MADISON, Wis. (WRN) — At the Capitol, legislation known as Bradyn’s Law has passed the Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety.
Representative Brent Jacobson of Mosinee says it keeps state law current with dangers teens face online amid a rise in sextortion — soliciting intimate images from victims and threatening to release them if they don’t pay up
“This needs to be specifically itemized in our statutes and criminalized to the serious degree that we can,” Jacobson said.
The bill, named after a Wisconsin teen who took his own life after falling prey to sextortion, designates the offense as a class B felony punishable by up to 60 years in prison. It’s now ready to be scheduled for a vote by the full Assembly.
