SLOBODIAN 'Sextortion plot' leads to Manitoba teen suicide
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Summary
A 14 year old boy was caught in a compromising situation with a girl online, and then he was blackmailed by a group of other kids, who then sent him compromising pictures of himself. He then killed himself out of fear and horror out of it.
Transcript
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try and keep up, I guess, with what your kids are getting on to and what they're doing. So the deal
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was with that, and I guess this is an ongoing scam, is some fake girl will find young guys
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online or whatever and manage to fool them, talk them into thinking they're speaking to a girl.
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And then when you're young and overladen with hormones, you can do foolish things. And he sent
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pictures of himself that were pretty embarrassing, I guess, out there. And then suddenly they come
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back with a blackmail request saying, all right, you give us money or we're going to send these
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pictures to your family and post it on Facebook and YouTube and whatnot. It's horrible. And then
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this poor kid, and kids react strongly, he killed himself out of fear and horror out of it. It's
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just awful. It's an awful end. And just talk to kids, make sure they're aware of these things or
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whatever. Hey, being caught in a compromising picture still isn't worth losing your life over,
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even if it might feel like it when you're 14 or 15. And just watch out for these scams. It's just
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what an awful thing this is. Horrible, horrible people out there.