""It's nearly impossible to get law enforcement to pay attention — and local police probably won't understand the laws, or there may not be a specific law," said University of Maryland Law School professor Danielle Citron. And not all victims have the money to pursue civil cases, which can end up bringing even more attention to incidents they would rather not relive, she said.
There have been some improvements recently. More tech companies are helping victims of revenge porn get links to it taken down, and there have been some successful prosecutions of perpetrators and people who ran sites extorting victims. But dealing with revenge porn is still a draining process.
"It's very hard to erase and it's this endless cycle of humiliation," Citron said. "I was glad to see it wasn't a nothing judgment here — when it appears that a totally private individual was caught up in someone else's war.""
- Date Published:07/14/2015
- Original Publication:The Washington Post