Baroness Nicky Morgan: Change revenge porn laws so we 'stop failing women and girls'

Gabriella Swerling Social and Religious Affairs Editor Threatening to publish revenge porn must be made illegal, the former culture secretary has said as “we cannot continue to fail women and girls”. Baroness Nicky Morgan, who was Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from July 2019 to February 2020, said that “the system needs to work for women and girls, not against them, and we must ensure women feel empowered to report these crimes in the knowledge that they will be taken seriously”. She made the comments after The Daily Telegraph published an investigation yesterday revealing how a revenge porn victim accused Snapchat of leaving her feeling “raped and traumatised”. Her remarks also come as threatening to publish revenge porn online could be made a criminal offence with peers planning to amend a draft law next week in the House of Lords. The woman contacted Essex Police after her ex-boyfriend secretly filmed her during sex and published the footage, as well as a number of explicit photos, on Snapchat. However she claims that the social media company, whose servers are designed to automatically delete opened messages, took five months to respond to police requests for evidence, by which…
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