South Carolina lawmaker exposes dangers of 'sextortion' after teenage son's suicide
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Brandon Guffey, a South Carolina state representative, has become an advocate for change after his 17-year-old son became the victim of a sextortion scheme and died by suicide.
Gavin Guffey, 17, received a message from someone posing as a girl on Instagram one evening in July 2022, and the pair began chatting on the social media app owned by Facebook's parent company, Meta. "If you're going to target children, it better not be in the state of South Carolina." "This is what they grew up with." Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
That person convinced Gavin to turn on "vanish mode" in their Instagram chat, which allows messages to disappear after they are received.
"And then they shared photos," Guffey told Fox News Digital.
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