This has been proven rather dramatically this week, with video footage of a social media experiment carried out on a group of thee young girls.
YouTuber Coby Persin worked with the parents of girls aged 12, 13 and 14 to set them up in a potentially threatening situation and see how they would react.
Persin posed as a 15-year-old boy and sent friend requests to each of the girls. Not only did each girl accept the request, but they went so far as to exchange person details and even organise dates.
What the girls weren’t expecting however, was that their parents were waiting for them when they showed up for their ‘date’, and they had some harsh words for them.
At the beginning of the video, Persin says that the experiment was carried out to show “how easy is it for a paedophile to pick up an underage child using social media” – and that is exactly what he proved.
We can certainly see why this video has gone viral. Check it out below.
