'It broke me': Inside the FBI hunt for the online predators who persuaded a 13-year-old to die

[Zorro]

GIG HARBOR, Wash. — The early-morning fog had yet to rise when police found the 13-year-old boy in a parking lot behind a grocery store.

His body was illuminated only by the ambient glow of lights on the loading dock.

Around the boy’s neck was a white extension cord he had used to hang himself from a black chain-link fence.

A few feet away, investigators spotted something else: an iPhone propped up on the ground, its camera pointed at the teen’s body.

https://wapo.st/47sE8WU

A very disturbing article. Young kids today are tremendously vulnerable to online predators.

[SheltieLover]

1. Perhaps ai psychosis?

[intheflow]

2. No, there's actually a subgroup of teens who

are convincing other teens to either kill others or themselves, or both.

From last May, the first time I heard about this: https://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-opened-250-investigations-tied-violent-online-network/story?id=121480884

[SheltieLover]

3. Ffs!

[Shellback Squid]

4. I hope I never understand why these predators exist