Thread by @segalink

Unfortunately, what they do with their bodies is their business provided they publish this themselves willfully. It’s online sexual harassment (cybersexual abuse) when you publish anyone’s nudes to spite them, shame them or blackmail them into doing certain things. #SexualAbuses

https://twitter.com/GhenhisKhan/status/1354813478817603588

There is however a spectrum of sexual misconducts under this heading in relations to online activities. Most common are; Lollipoping —this has to do with infantilizing women by calling her Sweetie, Darling, Honey, Love or BooBoo just to placate them into acceding to further abuse

Another common one we see as cases on the daily in hundreds is Sextortion & Revenge Porn which fall under non consensual intimate images. Most abuser threaten to publish if ransom are not paid & this often times may be in form of money or another affair which they weaponize again

Many of our youth are living under the chains of numerous abusers holding this over their heads. These are not even cases most would want to share with their parents so you see why @citizen_gavel & @SIAF_NG can’t ignore? Many have committed suicide for less.

The serial abusers know that in a Socialmedia dispensation, the online persona/reputation of most ladies is cherished thus the weaponization of these sensitive materials used to entrap and torment them. We cannot ask ladies not to trust their friends when we can appeal to...

...parents to raise gentlemen who will not abuse women. It goes both ways also. There are young ladies blackmailing married men with their nudes too. Volumes of iPhones have been exchanged unceremoniously as ransom to the advantage of abusers in this regard.

Distinguished, we must never cease to protect the vulnerable in society regardless of the games they play in the open as invitation to treat. This must never be taken as an offer for abusers to take advantage of. This is what freedom, liberty and boredom do to people. #InsideLaif

The cybercrime (Prohibition and Prevention) Act of 2015 is incandescently clear on the navigation and prosecution of these crimes and also the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act in states where applicable. Fundamental rights enforcement is also applicable.

The Criminal Law of Lagos State for example prohibits harassment, describing it as unwelcome sexual advances, request for sexual favours, & other visual, verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature which when submitted to or rejected...

a) implicitly or explicitly affects a person’s employment or educational opportunity or unreasonably interferes with the person’s work or educational performance; (b) implicitly or explicitly suggests that submission to or rejection of the conduct will be a factor in academic...

...or employment decisions; or (c) creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive learning or working environment. Any person who sexually harasses another is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for three years.