WASHINGTON, D.C. (NEXSTAR) -- Witnesses at a Senate Committee Tuesday called on Congress to protect children against the new threats they face online. Among those witnesses was Tamia Woods, who lost her 17-year-old son James to suicide. "I would give anything to have my son back," Tamia Woods told lawmakers. Woods testified before Senators that someone online blackmailed her son — threatening to send sexually explicit images of him to friends and family unless he sent money. "Though he died by suicide, let me be clear: He was murdered," Woods said. That online encounter, an example of "sextortion," was the focus of the Senate committee's hearing examining the new ways predators are targeting children online. "The imagery, the videos, the chats that we are seeing and reading are the most graphic that I have ever seen in my 20-year history," Lauren Coffren, of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said. Coffren says there's been a massive increase in new kinds of child exploitation. "Reports of these brutal victimizations grew by 200% last year and continue rising," Coffren said. But former Assistant US Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania Jessica Smolar says the law and sentencing guidelines haven't kept up. "Existing statutes do not adequately address the full scope or severe harm of these crimes," Smolar said. That's why Senators Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin introduced new bills to specifically address online sextortion and update sentencing guidelines. Durbin said he thinks it's something both sides of the aisle could work on together. Durbin and Grassley's bills are among several that address social media, AI chatbots, and holding platforms accountable. Sen. Lindsey Graham is also calling for the Senate to spend a week working on those bills and potentially voting on one big package. "Are we all talk or willing to act? Do y'all like that idea?" Graham said to the witnesses.