Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – According to the police, parents should keep an eye on their children’s social media consumption in order to prevent dangerous internet acquaintances. “Fathers and mothers should be interested in what their child is doing on the Internet, with whom it is communicating and keep talking about it,” advised prevention expert Marc Reinelt from the Baden-Württemberg State Criminal Police Office on Tuesday in Stuttgart. The background is the death of 14-year-old Ayleen from Gottenheim in southern Baden.
The student is said to have met her alleged killer through weeks of chatting and a well-known online game. This procedure with the aim of gaining the victim’s trust is called cybergrooming. Investigators are currently evaluating huge amounts of data on communication in social media and an online game.
