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Saturday 25 October 2014

Victim Of Revenge Porn, Breaks Her Anonymity In A Bid To Help Others [Photos+Video]


Revenge porn is becoming an increasingly common way for embittered former partners to inflict pain.
But victims often feel helpless, unaware of how to get pictures taken offline and deeply embarrassed.
Folami Prehaya, whose ex posted intimate pictures online that were viewed 50, 000 times has bravely decided to speak out about this heinous crime to empower other victims, and has set up a website to help them. The case was reported by MailOnline earlier this month but Folami was not identified. Now she has broken her anonymity in a bid to help others.

BRAVELY waiving her right to anonymity, Folami Prehaye tells the Sun how her ex posted explicit images of her online

Folami Prehaya, whose ex posted intimate pictures online that were viewed 50, 000 times, is speaking out about the crime of revenge porn and the impact it had on her life 

Folami's former boyfriend Thomas Samuel, 45, posted the explicit pictures of her using a spoof Facebook account after a bitter break-up and shared them with her family and friends.
Although Facebook removed the pictures  quickly, they had already been picked up by numerous porn sites.
Speaking on ITV's This Morning Folami explains: 'I feel totally embarrassed. It is so vindictive and cruel
'It has literally ruined my life in the sense that the pictures are still out there and still being seen.
The worst thing for me is i can't stop people viewing them, you have no control. 

Thomas Samuel, 45, posted the explicit pictures of her using a spoof Facebook account after a bitter break-up



Folami Prehaye’s bitter ex posted sex pictures of her online that were viewed nearly 50,000 times. Folami, 44, who has waived her right to anonymity, said her life was “turned upside down” by Thomas Samuel’s actions.
She said: “When Thomas and I took the photos, we were in love.
“When I discovered he’d put them online and they’d been seen by my family and friends I felt sick. I felt raped, numb and crushed. It was so violating.”
The Sun told yesterday how Samuel, 45, got a suspended jail term for sharing indecent images. It came as we launched a campaign to make revenge porn a specific sex crime with sentences of up to three years.
Office manager Folami, of Bristol, said: “Revenge porn definitely needs to be a specific crime. I say to other victims, ‘Don’t sit and do nothing, go to the police’.
“Thomas’s sentence doesn’t reflect the seriousness of the crime, but if I had done nothing he would have got nothing.”
THE Sun’s campaign is calling for:
• Revenge porn to be a specific sex crime with sentences of up to three years.
• Police to investigate it more thoroughly and for crimes to be taken more seriously.
• Better and more sufficient support for those who are victims of revenge porn.

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