This dad shared the predatory messages his seven-year-old daughter received on a popular app
A dad has shared on Facebook screeenshots of the grueling messages his seven-year-old daughter received from an online predator, hoping to raise awareness for parents everywhere.
Last week, Brad Summer decided to post on Facebook a sequence of text messages between his daughter and a predator posing as a nine-year old girl. According to the Independent, the exchange occured on the musical.ly app – an app that lets users create 15-second videos of themselves singing, dancing and lip-syncing and share them.
The predator asked the 7-year-old her age before proceeding to ask her to send “pics without t-shirt”. The girl explains that she can’t because her mother told her not to. However, the messages from the predator kept on coming, as he demanded to “make some pics without t-shirt now” and that it is “secret between us only”. At this point, the girl turned to her parents and her father stepped in the conversation, saying: “I am her father and I am a police officer. We have documented you IP address and location. I recommend that you refrain from any other contact.”
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To our FB friends; Today we went through something that I feel needs to be shared. Our daughter has an app that she…
Posted by Brad Summer on 11 August 2017
Brad Summer insisted that his daughter doesn’t have her own phone and was using a kid friendly app. “I know many will blame us parents for this happening. But we never thought like predators and I guess we were naive in thinking that our daughter was safe on what we thought to be a kid friendly app,” he explained. “We have learned the hard way. I ask that you not judge us (many still will) but let our experience teach us all. I never thought of someone pretending to be 9 to gain access to my child. We live and learn and I continue to do so everyday as a parent.”
For parents that are concerned with their children’s online safety, the NSPCC offered the TEAM plan:
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