Posted on 09/20/2020 7:52:48 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Police in Anne Arundel County, Maryland say an app on a child's cell phone told a 5-year-old to take naked pictures in the bathtub and threatened the child with strangulation if the child didn't do as they were told.
Police received a call for help on September 16. Officers discovered the child had several questionable cell phone apps...
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It is sick out there and getting sicker.
What concerns me more is that there could be older kids out there of age 13 or so who are taking naked pictures of their younger siblings and sending them to someone for drug money or maybe for money to just to buy Cheetos, judging from how many obese kids there are these days.
Five year olds are installing apps and reading at that level?
I home schooled my kids and they were all reading well early and they’d not have been able to do this at this level at this age.
Stupid parents giving a 5 year old a cell phone.
Why does a 5 year old have a cell phone?
App from Netflix?
“Why does a 5 year old have a cell phone?”
Why does a 5-year-old have a cellphone and privileges to install apps unsupervised?
There are plenty of reasons a young kid could have for having a phone, but no good reasons for that to be unmonitored and unsupervised.
How does a five year old have a phone?
I think people give phones to kids that age because of all the games on them and it is a way to keep the kid occupied and from pestering them.
Duh! So they can download apps that ask them to take naked pictures. How will they do that without a phone?
You beat me to it.
The parents probably loaded it for the kid.
A 5-year old with a “smart” phone and liberty to use it at will. Wanna know what’s wrong with parents today? THIS is what’s wrong!
I, at first, thought the same thing.. but realized that it may be by voice..
Ping!
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