Trigger warning: This post deals with incest and child sexual abuse.
In a particularly sickening case from the US, a father has admitted to catfishing his own teen daughter online.
Posing as the 14-year-old girl’s online boyfriend, the upstate New York man coerced her into sending naked photos of herself. He later used those images as leverage when he began sexually abusing her, Syracuse.com reports.
In a further manipulative twist, the middle-aged man even pretended the girl’s online boyfriend had committed suicide after she broke up with him.
The horrifying series of events began when the 41-year-old father set up accounts on Instagram, AOL and a texting service in September 2013 under a fake name.
Masquerading as a 16-year-old boy, he started chatting online with his daughter. Eventually, the pair began calling each other boyfriend and girlfriend.
The man, whose identity is being concealed to protect the girl’s privacy, then pressed the girl for nude photos. While the girl initially resisted, she eventually gave in and sent the images.
The girl eventually ended the relationship, telling her so-called boyfriend: “All you talk about is sex sex and more sex. Honestly that is not what a relationship is about,” Syracuse.com reports.
That’s when the so-called boyfriend threatened to show the girl’s nude selfies to her dad, telling her: “Then I will send these to your dad and then I won’t have to worry about anyone else having u.”
The girl protested, telling him that would ruin her life.
“I told you that a bunch of times when we were dating that I don’t like those pics and now you are threatening me that if I don’t send you those then you’ll send my dad the ones I sent you before?” she texted. “My life is ruined.”
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Poor girl. Poor, poor girl. This sick piece of work will be done over in prison, and he'll deserve every bit of it and more. But this girl, the damage that will have been done is horrible. I hope she gets decent help from the appropriate professionals, and that she gets some sense of a normal life going forward. The hate I feel towards creeps that do this is indescribable.
Ok this is all very bad and all. But what I can't help wondering is that if the girl lived with him in the house the whole time and all he wanted to do was sexually abuse her, the whole online thing was so unnecessary and he could have simply just assaulted her there and then. Don't get me wrong, this all shouldn't have happened at all and I feel sorry for the girl, but I mean come on, if ur going to abuse her just go ahead u don't have to set up this online account and all that rubbish because you'll end up in prison anyways.