Surprise, your Child may be a Paedophile

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Surprise, your Child may be a Paedophile

By Adam Myers ⋅ April 30, 2008 ⋅

Wonder how your children pass all that time on the Internet, never accomplishing much of anything? Facebook and Myspace are a given, Youtube too, perhaps even searching for some naughty bits. But, it should surprise you that they also could be pretending to be paedophiles in order to settle playground scores - at least across the pond. Brits as young as 10 were posing as predatory paedophiles on Bebo and MSN to frighten schoolmates they had fallen out with.

A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall police told the Manchester Grauniad:

“Information from the public has highlighted a possibility that the offenders could be children aged 10 and over, masquerading as a paedophile. The investigations are continuing and at this moment we are looking into every line of inquiry and are not ruling out any possibility. However, the language used on the social networking sites such as Bebo and MSN is at times childish.

“It could be youngsters playing a sick game to try and intimidate friends they have fallen out with. This will be treated seriously and we will be contacting the families of the children involved and we will try and help them by involving social services.”

Remember when we’d just prank call our friend as a joke? Times sure have changed.

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