This research aimed to study factors causing a person to become a crime victim of cyber bullying in the form of sexual offenses. It also aimed to study impacts and to provide recommendations for the establishment of crime victimization prevention in a case of cyber bullying in the form of sexual offenses, or ways for reducing opportunities of becoming a victim. The research was based on qualitative research by using in-depth interviews to collect data of the population. Selecting the population was conducted by using the snowball technique. There were 10 cases which were crime victims of cyber bullying in the form of sexual offenses in Bangkok. The researcher also used narrative research designed to analyze data from in-depth interviewing of the population sampling and a literature review in order to get the results.

       The results showed that there are 3 factors causing the person to become a victim of cyber bullying in the form of sexual offenses which were that they were a suitable target, motivation, and lack of prevention. These results also demonstrated the impacts on physical, mental and social aspects. Moreover, these had led to ways to prevent or reduce the opportunities of becoming cyber bullying victims in the form of sexual offenses, such as realizing risky online behaviors and understanding ways to use online media appropriately.

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