#grooming-and-coercion

#grooming-and-coercion

The defendant, a 21-year-old German-Iranian national living in the northern city of Hamburg, has been only partially identified as Shahriar J., in line with German privacy rules. The case shines a spotlight on the dark world of sadistic online exploitation, where predators seek out vulnerable youths and manipulate them to commit acts of self-harm, violence against themselves or animals, or to kill themselves.