The mother of a 14-year-old who died by suicide claims he was the victim of a “sextortion” scam that took place online.
Any parent will tell you of the many concerns they harbor when it comes to their children finding their feet in the wild west that is the internet. Most want to at least be aware of what sites their little ones are visiting, what apps they’ve downloaded, what social media platforms they have accounts for. Some go further than that, monitoring their child’s online activity with a view to shielding them from potential pitfalls.
The mother of Caleb Morgan knows this only too well.
On June 10, Caleb, of El Dorado, Kansas, started up a conversation with what he believed to be a “14-year-old girl” on TikTok, with the chat then moving to Snapchat.
As per the Daily Mail, Caleb’s mother, Morgan, alleges the other person sent compromising images of ‘herself’ to Caleb, who then sent pictures of himself in return.
Things then took a turn for the ominous, with the “girl” in question demanding that Caleb send large amounts of cash in exchange for not leaking his photos. According to Morgan, the stranger “made him feel like his life was over as he had made this mistake”.
Caleb took his own life by shooting himself with a gun at his family home.
The teenager’s father called his mother to deliver the heartbreaking news.
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