Stony Point police arrested a Fieldstone Middle School student after a six-month investigation into "sextortion" allegations from other students.

Investigators say they "have reason to believe there are potentially several hundred additional victims."

Police said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon that six male victims from Fieldstone told their school resource officer they were being coerced online.

Those reports led to an "intensive investigation" involving Stony Point police, the North Rockland Central School District, the Rockland County Sheriff's Office, the Rockland district attorney and Haverstraw police.

The student is charged with use of a child in a sexual performance, promoting a sexual performance by a child and possessing a sexual performance by a child.

All charges are felonies.

The student was arrested last week.

Police said the case is unique.

"I've never uncovered a suspect that's local," Detective Andrew Kryger, Stony Point PD's youth officer. "A lot of these cases, they end up [being from] out of the state, out of the country mostly."

Kryger said the male suspect, posing as a female on social media, coerced other seventh- and eighth-grade male students into sharing explicit photos and videos of themselves and then exploited them.

The suspect would threaten to release the material to the victims' friends, Kryger said, if the victims did not send him a gift card worth $100 or send more explicit material.

"While we will not say specific names for investigation reasons," Kryger said of the social media platforms the suspect used, "we want to stress that sextortion could happen on nearly any platform where children communicate online."

Kryger said the six alleged victims and their families were brave to come forward, and their courage was key to getting an arrest.

He suspects there are more — potentially hundreds more — victims from the middle school, other states and other countries.

He encourages all the victims to call him at 845-786-2422.

"Victims must never feel blame or ashamed," he said. "The responsibility lies solely with the perpetrators."

Stony Point police, Haverstraw police and the school district will host an open forum about sextortion in the near future, according to a press release earlier in the day that included parts that read more like a public service announcement to the victims.

"It is up to us as a community, together with school administration and parents, to provide safe platforms where our youth feel comfortable speaking about negative experiences without fear of secondary consequences, humiliation or punishment," Stony Point Lt. Daniel Schoales wrote in the release.

Since the suspect is a juvenile, his next court appearance will be in family court.