My 14-year-old son was the victim of a cruel 35-minute chat with a ‘girl’ he met online … – Daily Mail

A mother claimed a 35-minute chat with a ‘girl’ on TikTok cost her son’s life – when it turned out to be a cruel social media ‘sextortion’ plot that drove him to suicide. Morgan Moore, from El Dorado, Kansas, says her son Caleb Moore, 14, was ‘flirting’ with a person he believed was a 14-year-old girl on TikTok, before the pair moved the conversation to Snapchat. After the ‘girl’ allegedly sent him compromising photos of herself, Caleb sent over similar photos in return. Morgan, 33,  said ‘she’ then began to threaten Caleb and demanded he stump up a large amount of cash or they would leak his photos. In that moment Morgan believes her son felt like he had nowhere to turn and he shot himself. Morgan claimed Caleb’s conversation with the sinister stranger saw her son’s ‘happiness and hope destroyed in 35 minutes’. Following his death, the 33-year-old claimed TikTok and Snapchat should have more effective monitoring on their platform to stop fraudulent accounts like this existing. The mother-of-five is now bravely sharing Caleb’s tragic story to encourage parents to have ‘constant’ open conversations with their children to combat scams online and avoid the same thing happening to others. Morgan Moore, (right)
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