Kayleigh’s Love Story - important film about internet safety

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I did some training through work with the police this week and part of the session focused on child sexual exploitation. They showed this film, and if you have teens, it is well worth watching with them.

Trigger warning: it relates to a real-life case of a 15 year old girl, Kayleigh, who was raped and murdered after being exploited online by a man who posed as a teenager. Watch it yourself first.

Just thought it was worth sharing as it’s such an important message.

This was shown in lots of Leicestershire schools at the time. Hard hitting but powerful.

I just listened to the podcast about this case...absolutely chilling! Such an important message! Xx

That's heartbreaking. And so worrying that it went from nothing to death in such a short space of time. I'll be showing this to my 13 year old.

The case was tragic I have seen a coup!e of documentaries about it awful😥

Help Needed. How to have a conversation about online safety with my sister about my niece.

My niece (then 14, now 15) doesn't get on with my sister, her Mum. (My sister is AMAZING btw, but very stressed with messy divorce, demanding full time job and 2 other younger kids). They both live outside the UK (but an English speaking country). When I was visiting them last year, my niece and I were chatting about how she was getting on at school. She's a bit of a loner, has low self-esteem, has ADHD, and not many (if any?) friends. She was talking about how all her friends have boyfriends, but she doesn't. The chat then moved on to online gaming. She's a talented artist and had one of her paintings as her avatar. She told me how "jack" was really nice to her and complimented her drawings. She then said he started asking questions - like whether she had a boyfriend - the conversation went back and forth. Liked a lot of the same music, enjoyed gaming, etc. Then it was about whether she was still a virgin. - good for her she said "that's not an appropriate question to ask" - and then he said "surprising - most 14 year old girls have lost their virginity". I straight away said that that was a red flag. There was no way he was her age, that that was a grown up man trying to suss her out. She reassured me she cut him off after that. She also talked about how gross it was that some 'boys' sent her cock shots. I told her to immediately delete and cease contact with any of those boys. I also told her to tell her Mum about it and of course it was "no way, she'd kill me. She's always picking on me anyway, you've seen what she's like... " etc etc

Now a year on, and hearing about the online safety bill and seeing that video. I'm going out of my mind with worry. Any advice how to broach this with my sister - bearing in mind that she is super stressed (though in a slightly better place now than last year), and that this will have to be done by phone.

Sorry this is long winded but advice appreciated.