Cache Valley police and college students working collectively to stop suicide, sextortion

NORTH LOGAN — The North Park police chief is hoping to get by to teenagers and their dad and mom on two essential subjects: suicide and sextortion.

They’re the main target of an upcoming neighborhood assembly. The Hyde Park Youth Council has organized the initiative.

One of many teen members has some considerations about suicide in Cache Valley, and the North Park police chief wished to take {that a} step additional with one other matter that’s usually straight associated.

“After I had first joined the youth council, some children within the valley had (died by) suicide lately. So I simply form of had that on my thoughts,” Abigail Chatterley stated.

The eighth grader at North Cache Center Faculty puzzled how she might assist dad and mom and teenagers work collectively to avoid wasting lives.

“And it made me really feel so unhealthy that individuals felt like they could not speak to anyone about their struggles,” she added.

That inside turmoil may be stoked by chats, texts, social media and infrequently one thing else you won’t anticipate.

Police Chief Kent Goodrich stated, “Our expertise we have seen as a (police division) that the 2 subjects, sextortion and suicide, are linked collectively. They’ve an in depth tie collectively.”

Goodrich stated he already wished to succeed in out to the neighborhood about sextortion, a rising drawback not solely right here however all over the place.

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“We’ve got seen an enormous improve,” Goodrich stated. “It’s alarming. It’s regarding to us.”

The perpetrators attain out to Utah’s children from distant. Simply final month Daniel Roy Kromer Jr., a Pennsylvania firefighter, was arrested in Utah and accused of soliciting nude images from two North Logan teenagers.

“And so our purpose with that is to attempt to assist dad and mom have that shame-free dialog, the best way to begin that communication with their youngsters,” Goodrich stated.

Children have to know they’ve someplace to show when they could assume there is no manner out.

Goodrich stated it is easy to react with anger, however children have to know they’ll ask for assist realizing somebody could have their again.

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Chatterley stated, “I am so grateful that is occurring, that this consciousness is coming to this neighborhood.”

A gathering and neighborhood dialogue is ready for April 29 at Skyview Excessive Faculty, beginning at 7 p.m.

Goodrich will cowl sextortion and the director of Cache County Sufferer Providers will speak about suicide prevention.