Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

‘Revenge porn’ victim fights back with Mexican law to stem digital violence

When teenager Olimpia Coral Melo found a video of herself having sex online, she fell into depression and attempted suicide several times - before vowing to outlaw revenge porn in Mexico.

Melo was 18 when the explicit video of her and her then boyfriend was shared on social media and posted on porn sites in 2013. Her ex-boyfriend denies he shared it online.

“Everyone pointed the finger at me and judged and blamed me. I didn’t leave home for months. There was no place to run,” Melo told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “You can’t forget this quickly. It . . .

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