'It broke me': Inside the FBI hunt for the online predators who persuaded a 13-year-old to die
GIG HARBOR, Wash. — The early-morning fog had yet to rise when police found the 13-year-old boy in a parking lot behind a grocery store.
His body was illuminated only by the ambient glow of lights on the loading dock.
Around the boy’s neck was a white extension cord he had used to hang himself from a black chain-link fence.
A few feet away, investigators spotted something else: an iPhone propped up on the ground, its camera pointed at the teen’s body.
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A very disturbing article. Young kids today are tremendously vulnerable to online predators.
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