PRESS RELEASE- Boy, 16, sentenced for targeting vulnerable teenage girls online with self-harm campaign lasting 16 months
A 16-year-old boy has been sentenced after encouraging other internet users to self-harm, as well as downloading indecent images of children.
The defendant, aged 14 at the time of the offences, used an online username to hide his identity while targeting victims which were primarily teenage girls. He instructed them to carve his username into their bodies and send him images, which he saved.
He pleaded guilty to encouraging self-harm and was later convicted of downloading indecent images following a trial at Southampton Youth Court. Officers seized an Xbox from his address after he accessed accounts linked to the offences while on bail.
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