Pennsylvania High Schooler Charged With Running Sextortion Scheme Targeting Over 20 Minors
A Pennsylvania high school senior has been charged with operating a sextortion and catfishing scheme that targeted over 20 underage victims, who were coerced into sending sexually explicit images and videos. The felony charges expose the growing danger of online exploitation among teenagers, where predators use fake identities and social engineering to manipulate minors into compromising situations. The case arrives as Congress debates new online child safety legislation and parents grapple with the risks their children face in an increasingly unsupervised digital landscape.
Read Full Story at Christian PostIf anyone causes one of these little ones — those who believe in me — to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
— Matthew 18:6
Jesus's warning about those who harm children carries particular weight in the digital age, where new tools of exploitation make it possible for predators — even peers — to victimize the vulnerable on a scale previously unimaginable.