‘This is terrorism’: Parents reveal teen sons committed suicide after being ‘sextorted’ By Rikki Schlott
August 30, 2023
At midnight on December 1, 2022, Walker Montgomery received a direct message from a pretty girl on Instagram.
The 16-year-old didn’t know her, but they seemed to have mutual friends, and he was flattered as she asked him about school and football.
Soon enough, things turned from flirtatious to sexual. The girl video-chatted Walker on Instagram and soon exposed herself.
He did the same — and stepped right into a trap.
There was no girl at all. The video had been lifted from a porn site.
The person on the other side of the chat was a Nigerian scam artist who recorded the entire encounter.
As soon as Walker’s image was captured, the scammer threatened to send the video to all of the boy’s Instagram’s contacts unless he forked over $1,000.
For two hours the Starksville, Mississippi teen, who did not have access to a bank account, pleaded for mercy as the extortionist claimed to send the photos to his list of followers one by one.
“We’re gonna destroy your life if you don’t give us the money,” the scammer told him. “Everybody’s gonna disown you. Your life is over.”
When the list got to his mother’s username, it was too much for the teen to stand. He said he was going to kill himself.
“Go ahead, because your life is already over,” the scammer responded.
Walker retrieved a handgun from his father’s safe, and, at just 16, he took his own life.
His harassers never sent out the video, even though they claimed they had.
The teen had fallen prey to sextortion — a scheme in which scammers lure victims into sharing explicit photos, then threaten to send the pictures to everyone they know unless they pay up.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/08/30/parents-reveal-teen-sons-committed-suicide-after-sextortion/
