TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - Parents and victims have a new free tool in the battle against sextortion.

“We are a very vital tool for those children who may be experiencing sextortion and they’re not sure what to do next or who to turn to,” said Hayley Elizondo with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

That’s a sentence that just a few years ago might not have made sense to most of us.

But the sad reality is, children are becoming victims of these crimes daily.

And many of those crimes stem from children taking photos.

Sextortion is when someone may reach out to a child and try to start a relationship, enticing the child to send nude images of themselves.

They then use those images to blackmail them.

“When we look at those reports, we are typically seeing that th

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