Stories like this one are devastating reminders of the damaging potency of social networks for children. The stranger had somehow weaseled his way into the teenager’s marching band Discord server before befriending her.īy the time the mother shut down her daughter’s Discord account, the girl had obliged to share compromising pictures of herself and even disclosed where she lived. Her mother discovered that an older man had been manipulating and tracking the girl over a private thread on Discord. What started out as a seemingly harmless direct message (DM) to the girl gnarled into harassment and grooming.
Like most Discord users who use the service for non-gaming activities, a 16-year-old Washington teenager was on the app with her marching band friends.
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