Teen accused of being a paedophile advice needed!

[Stuckinarut23]

I've been sent messages from his ex gf of screen shots of my son messaging a 14/15 year old girl, apparently they were messaging on snap chat he wrote some sexual stuff and chatting her up
He said he didn't know she was 15 at first
They haven't met or had sex. I am devastated. I dorn think he realises the consequences of hia actions, screen shots have been posted on FB on groups and what do I do?

@kaka79 Hence the popularity of Snapchat with men who like to indulge in sexual communication with children.

Screenshots can be taken however, and do seem to exist in this case.

@LarkspurLane

Doesn't the Portsmouth News article say the 18 year old man from Havant was released on the rape charges and will face no further action on those, but was re-bailed for engaging in sexual communication with a child and possessing indecent photographs of a child?

This info from the NSPCC contains the interesting nuggets that three quarters of reported online grooming offences involve children aged 12-15, and 83% of online grooming crimes are committed against girls.

Apologies, I missed that at the bottom of the article.

Those local papers can be so hard to read. Especially the Reach ones. You think you've reached the end, but there's a bit more after the advertising.

www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/23560999.man-19-sexually-communicated-cumbrian-schoolgirls/

www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/teenager-armagh-charged-blackmail-sexual-26657154.amp

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/man-19-arrested-suspicion-sexual-14258252.amp

What was all the "hahahaha" about Snapchat deleting evidence of sexual communication with a child @kaka79?

Explain.
I’m not sure which post you are referring to.
I have spent the last four years navigating these issues and have been astonished at how some teenage girls behave.
I would suggest that all mothers of teenage daughters check their daughters Instagram sites. Not just the one they allow you to follow but the multiple sites they use. As for Snapchat, it is designed so parents have no idea.
As I mentioned my DS’s peer group have quite rigid social rules regarding relationships. School was very active in online safety. One or two have been caught out, accounts hacked by Russian prostitutes that caused great hilarity.
If I had daughters they wouldn’t be allowed a phone until they were 16. That way they wouldn’t be subjected to the cruel bullying that goes on via sm. Although they’d get just as much in rl for not having a phone.
Personally I believe children should have a phone that is limited to phone calls and texts with their parents. Everything else via a computer where their online activity is logged so it’s there for everyone to see. This is probably the only way we can protect them from themselves and from online bullying or grooming. But we live in a world where technology develops at such a rate, behaviour and etiquette seriously lags behind.

Snapchat doesn't actually delete photos, they can be retrieved.