Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 11 October 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent steps he has taken to support victims of cyberflashing.
The Government is creating a new criminal offence targeting “cyberflashing” in the Online Safety Bill. This offence, which will carry a 2-year maximum prison sentence, will criminalise intentionally sending or giving a photograph or film of any person’s genitals to another person with the intention that that person will see the genitals and be caused alarm, distress or humiliation, or for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification whilst being reckless as to whether the recipient will be caused alarm, distress or humiliation.
Alongside this important reform of the criminal law, in May, we published the draft Victims Bill to enable improvements in the quality and consistency of support services for victims.
It includes measures to improve support for victims of sexual offences such as making provision for the Secretary of State to issue guidance about Independent Sexual Violence Advisors (and Independent Domestic Violence Advisors). It will also improve how organisations work together to commission support services to better meet the needs of victims.
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