According to a report on the IoL site, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center said that 184 children in the UK had been subjected to some form of online sexual blackmail over the past two years. The agency said that six shame-stricken children subsequently seriously harmed themselves or tried to take their own lives as a result, the report notes. One committed suicide. 'These offenders are cowards,' Andy Baker, the deputy chief executive at the agency, said in a statement. 'They hide behind a screen, and in many cases make hollow threats which they know they will never act on because sharing these images will only bring the police closer to them.' Full report on the IoL site