Mom issues warning after son found dead after flirting with who he thought was a girl online

Warning: This article contains discussion of suicide which some readers may find distressing A 14-year-old boy’s mother says her son took his own life after becoming a victim of a ‘sextortion’ scam. On June 10, Caleb Moore, who is from El Dorado, Kansas, began talking to what he thought was a ’14-year-old girl’ on TikTok before the conversation moved to Snapchat. Caleb’s mother, Morgan, says that the person then allegedly sent compromising pictures of herself to Caleb, with the teen sending photographs of himself in return. Following this, the ‘girl’ then began threatening him and demanded that he give them large amounts of cash or they would leak the photos. Morgan said that they’d ‘made him feel like his life was over as he had made this mistake’, and Caleb took his own life by shooting himself with a gun in his home. The 14-year-old believed he was speaking to another teen after communicating on TikTok (Kennedy) Morgan says she was informed of her son’s death after his father called her, adding: “When I got there Caleb was still alive and breathing but they were unable to resuscitate him so they stopped trying as nothing was working. “He passed away
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