Paedophiles pose as 'ice cream' on social media to access pictures

Paedophiles are setting up fake social media accounts pretending to be chicken nuggets, ice-cream, and even roads in order to “friend” Irish primary school children online. Paedophiles pose as roads online

Paedophiles pose as 'ice cream' on social media to access pictures

Paedophiles are setting up fake social media accounts pretending to be chicken nuggets, ice-cream, and even roads in order to “friend” Irish primary school children online, writes Gordon Deegan.

They set up an account which would, to a child, seem to be an innocuous topic which they would see no reason not to “friend”. That then gives the paedophile access the child’s data, including pictures.

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