Introduction to the Case Study Collection

The Cyber Trust
Part of the Family Internet Monitoring Project

This collection of case studies explores real-world news stories highlighting how children and young people can be placed at risk through their online activities.

The collection is drawn from real cases investigated by the Cyber Choices team at the National Crime Agency and stories reported in the press.

All of these cases could have been prevented had parents been able to monitor their child's online activity and intervene.



News Item Link Cyber Choices Link

Story:Dangerous & extremely troubled’ paedo, 18, who told girl, 14, to self-harm and carve his name into her skin is jailed

Source The Sun

 

 

An 18 year old man has been jailed following grooming a 14 year old girl. His acts were about as depraved as they come as he demanded her to undress and carry out his lewd commands. Worse still he encouraged her to self harm and even got her to carve his name onto her body. 

He used Discord, Whatsapp and Telegram to undertake his communictations and even referred to himself as a 'peadophile online'. Clearly this grooming communication was taking place over a long period of time and was never detected,

Read the full story here.