Outlining the Long-term Effects of Image-based Abuse and its Impact on Victim’s Lives

Between 2020 and 2022, over 60,000 pieces of sexual content were reported to the Revenge Porn Helpline.

Folami Prehaye is the Founder of Victims of Image-Based Crime, which is a peer support group that provides long-term emotional support to those who have experienced Image-Based Sexual Abuse. The group was founded 4 years after Folami’s personal experience in 2014 and aims to provide non-judgemental one-on-one support to those who reach out.

In this video, Folami shares her own lived experience of image-based abuse, highlighting both the short and long-term effects of it. Discussing the impacts of the act on her mental health, she identifies that the images being taken offline are not the end of a person’s healing journey and that the effects are continuous even years after the abuse. By sharing this experience, recommendations are outlined for how services can better support victims with a trauma-informed response.

Between 2020 and 2022, over 60,000 pieces of sexual content were reported to the Revenge Porn Helpline. In this video Folami Prehaye, Founder of Victims of Image Based Crime shares her own experiences of image based abuse and highlights both long and short term impacts on victims to illustrate how organisations can provide trauma-informed support.