I have just listened to a very scary podcast about a “new” type of predators, who make contact with girls online using social media. They use a fake profile with fake pictures to lure Young girls to send them compromising pictures and use these to blackmail the girls to do horrible things to themselves while filming it. The abuse material is then shared in secret fora on the internet or using a drop box. They sell access to the sites and they also sell information about the girls identity (name, age, social media accounts etc). The predator will use a certain nickname, and they sometimes ask the girls to say specific things in the videos or do specific things, which then becomes a kind of signature for the predator, so others Will know who was the “creator” of the material. Predators target girls as Young as 12-13 years. It made me sick listening to it, I had no idea things like this was going on. Sorry for posting this if it is common knowledge in here.
My point about this is that for me it resonnated with the little we know about this case. Not saying this is what happened, just speculating.
There are apparently lots of this abuse material circulating and a huge number of girls that have been abused, mainly from UK and the US. Interpol is involved and they have recently arrested one of the abusers from the US.
I hope this post does not go against the rules in here, otherwise Admin please delete it. I Can link to the podcast, but it may not make much sense as it is not in English. It is created by 2 journalists from one of the main media considered trustworthy in my country. They recieved an anonymous tip, investigated the case and then handed everything over to the local LE, who passed it on to interpol. This material helped identify the predator in the US. Local LE is participating in the podcast as well, so I believe it is credible.
Apologies for the Long post and any bad English and spelling mistakes. I really wish The podcast would be available in English because the were so much information in that made me view the Delphi case from a different angle.