A REPORT calling for a change in the law on revenge porn has won backing from North Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Julia Mulligan.
The House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee report into sexual harassment of women and girls in public places calls on the Government to introduce a new law on image-based sexual abuse.
The law would criminalise all non-consensual creation and distribution of intimate sexual images, including altered images, and threats to do so.
The reports says: "This should be a sexual offence based on the victim’s lack of consent and not on perpetrator motivation, and include an automatic right to life-long anonymity for the complainant, as with other sexual offences.”
Mrs Mulligan said: “I welcome this report which agrees with our #NoMoreNaming campaign that there should be anonymity for victims of revenge porn. To do this, we need to reclassify image based sexual abuse as a sex crime rather than a communications crime and that needs to happen now."
She added: “Ministers need to step up, agree to change the law and protect victims so they no longer have to suffer the indignity of being named on top of having their most intimate moments shared online.”
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