The sadistic online groomers targeting victims around the world – and a mother’s struggle to keep her daughter safe

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: headlines · Bias: Right · Published: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:00:02 GMT

This month a predator with ties to the online extortion group known as 764 was sentenced to decades in prison. The mother of one of his victims wants parents to know the truth about this ‘harrowing’ global trendSadistic online exploitation: five warning signs for parents - and how to keep young people safe“My beautiful, kind, intelligent, trusting daughter had the misfortune of stumbling across a link in a Discord server that led her to your evil and cruel group.“The grooming of her started immediately, and what followed was unimaginably harrowing and traumatic. You were just one of the group members who abused her, who made her do things that no young person should ever be made to do.” Continue reading...

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