To want to report these teenagers but don’t know how?

[GremlinDolphin4]

My dc have shown me an Instagram story set up by teenagers they know that is vile, racist, homophobic, body shaming, fascist you name it.

My dc contacted one of them as they used to be friends to say what on Earth are you doing and now is the target of some of this.

It’s all very odd and horrible but what do I actually do about it apart from talk to and support my dc?

Report it to Instagram?

Here's a link that tells you how

help.instagram.com/192435014247952

Child Exploitation and Online Protection CEOP google this?

Otherwise directly to the police. It's a hate crime.

Would also contact the school in the first instance.

It's bullying and your DC is getting the backlash. Well done them for not being a bystander. Needs stamping out.

Screenshot or record and report to the police and also the schools if you know them.

If you know one police can trace others.

I'd go to the school especially if dc is a target now.

Horrible thing to go through. Contact the police and ask for their advice. I would do everything formally and not try and sort it out myself. It sounds serious

I don't understand why people think the police will care about this, you could report the account to insta but they can easily just make a new one. I'd tell your child to move on, block them and stand by her morals that it's wrong.

@NekoShiro

I don't understand why people think the police will care about this, you could report the account to insta but they can easily just make a new one. I'd tell your child to move on, block them and stand by her morals that it's wrong.

The police do care about it.

Police and school

@MrsPelligrinoPetrichor

I'd go to the school especially if dc is a target now.

By all means go to the school but they might say it's nothing to do with them if it happened outside school. Do go to the police, they are more likely to take it seriously. This was my family's experience.

@NekoShiro

I don't understand why people think the police will care about this, you could report the account to insta but they can easily just make a new one. I'd tell your child to move on, block them and stand by her morals that it's wrong.

Wrong. The police do take it seriously or at least, did in my experience.

@NekoShiro

I don't understand why people think the police will care about this, you could report the account to insta but they can easily just make a new one. I'd tell your child to move on, block them and stand by her morals that it's wrong.

Absolute nonsense. The polive will take online bullying extremely seriously.

The police will take online bullying very seriously and hate crimes. They have specialist officers for that job. Report it.

How do they take it seriously? I just assumed they wrote down an incident report about it and that was it. Do they go talk to the kids involved?

The police 100% will take this seriously. there is a .gov page about this
www.gov.uk/report-hate-crime
following the links on that site you can either report to your local police on 101 or report it online on this page.
www.report-it.org.uk/your_police_force

They did when it happened to my friends daughter. They also contacted the school.

The police /school take it very seriously.

@NekoShiro

How do they take it seriously? I just assumed they wrote down an incident report about it and that was it. Do they go talk to the kids involved?

In the case I knew about they interviewed the culprits under caution at the police station. The victim was given counselling via the police.