Sextortion pushed a NSW teen to suicide, cops traced culprits to Nigeria

A teenager’s suicide has been revealed as a sextortion plot, run by a global crime gang that hounded the beloved NSW schoolboy to death over just $500.can reveal cybercrime detectives traced the plotters to a sprawling Nigerian slum in the latest fatal case of a “hidden pandemic” targeting children across the world.

The boy had spent his final evening alive, a Friday, in his bedroom messaging a young woman on social media. She had sent a racy photo, he had sent one back, the messages revealed.“It was all jovial banter at first; then it started to become sexualised.

The case was strikingly similar to the deaths of other schoolboys, Canadians Robin Janjua and William Doiron, and American Jordan Demay, who were all allegedly hounded to suicide by sextortion plots run by west African crime gangs. For detectives, it was a bittersweet breakthrough; after weeks of hitting brick walls, they had found the trail, but it led far from the jurisdiction of NSW.

Evidence gathered so far suggests the Nigerian scammers were using a “scattergun” approach, targeting numerous children for relatively small amounts of money. Craft said the family had done the right thing by speaking with their son about online safety. They struggle wondering what else they could have done before he was targeted.

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