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- Lena Hosia
- BBC
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He lured a girl into an unfamiliar apartment after she was tricked into filming a modeling video
“I thought I was going to work at a modeling job, but I was lured into a gang rape trap.”
Kelly, by a pseudonym, was 17 when a woman called her on Instagram and introduced herself as a supermodel and invited her to meet up for a video shoot in central London, but when she arrived, a man she hadn’t met before. I was waiting.
She said: “He told me he was the manager and he took me to an apartment on a higher floor and then he forcibly attacked me.”
He added: “Half an hour later, the supermodel who spoke to him came on the Internet with condoms in hand. It was clear that everything was arranged between them.”
Kelly’s story comes after 1,200 cyber-seduction offenses were recorded by British police across the country during the April-June shutdown period.
London recorded around a hundred such incidents, while the Facebook-owned Instagram app was noted as the preferred platform for online seduction.
The National Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children warned that the Corona epidemic has created an ideal environment for perpetrators of online crime.
“I locked myself in the bathroom.”
“I heard the woman say on the phone to other men (she’s here),” Kelly said.
Kelly thought carefully, then told her attacker that she was menstruating and needed to go to the pharmacy to get tampons.
She added: “I managed to convince him to let me go to a bathroom at a nearby cafe. There I explained to an employee what was happening, so he asked me to turn off the bathroom and call the police.”
Britain’s Internet Watch Foundation said she and other partners have prevented around 8.8 million attempts by British Internet users to access videos and photos of children being sexually abused during lockdown.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has warned that the epidemic has created an ideal environment for cybercriminals, and the association believes that these figures could usher in an increase in cyber-seduction crimes.
A Facebook spokesperson said: “We do not tolerate seduction on our platforms and we cooperate closely with child protection experts and law enforcement agencies to keep users safe.”
He added that “96 per cent of child exploitation content is blocked and we remove it before it is reported to us, using pioneering technology in this field.”
Marid Barry, another victim of seduction, said she believed more should be done to protect children online.
Mered, from Wales, who now lives in London, was 14 years old when she was attracted to the Internet by men who manipulated her into sending her sexual photos.
Married Barry believes more needs to be done to protect children online
“When I was 14, I was living my life at school and I started talking to some of the older guys on Facebook,” he said.
She added: “Things progressed and got more wicked without my realizing it. They were asking me for photos or talking to them inappropriately.”
“They told me this is what mature girls her age do and that I just wanted to keep up,” she said.
Ten years later, Barry became one of the participants in a campaign to improve the tools for reporting sexual harassment on Instagram and other social media platforms.
“There are no dedicated icons to report sexual harassment in the Instagram complaints section, and there are icons to report nudity, hate speech, intimidation, etc.”
“But there is no icon to click if someone is sexually harassing you or doing things inappropriate for sex with minors.”
A Facebook spokesperson said: “We have a content and security team of over 35,000 who verify our users’ reports and work to keep our platforms safe.”
“Our teams also work closely with child protection experts and law enforcement authorities, and report content directly to professionals,” he added.
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The National Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children says that Instagram is the most used application to seduce girls
The National Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children called on the government to go ahead with passing a bill on online harm.
The bill proposes to penalize Internet companies if they do not address the spread of various harmful behaviors on their sites.
“Child abuse is an inconvenient reality for tech heads who have failed to make their sites safe, providing an opportunity for criminals to seize it and use it as a playground to seduce our children,” said Peter Wanlis , executive director of the association.
“The time has come to implement regulations and establish a supervisory body that has the power to hold technology managers criminally liable if their platforms allow children to be exposed to serious and preventable harm,” he added.
