The messaging app Snapchat is the most widely-used platform for online grooming, according to police figures supplied to the children's charity the NSPCC. More than 7,000 Sexual Communication with ...

During elections to committees in the States of Guernsey, Deputy Paul Montague, the new president of Education, Sport and Culture, said he would support a community led ban on smartphones for primary ...

Instagram was used in a third of cases where a method was disclosed, while Facebook was used in 23% of cases and Snapchat in 14%. The number of cases on Instagram that police dealt with rose by ...

Kettle Run High School's head football coach Charlie Porterfield was put on administrative leave during the investigation and ...

During a press conference Tuesday evening, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said the two met on Snapchat, something he said his investigators find happens all too often in child sexual abuse cases.

The NSPCC found 22% of all 1,944 grooming offences recorded by British police forces ... Predatory behavior on Instagram made up 32% of these cases, comfortably ahead of Facebook and Snapchat, ...

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Angelo Barone, 25, was arrested for child grooming after allegedly communicating with 3 teens through Snapchat, according to Pilot Point ISD.

Snapchat made up nearly half of the 1,824 cases where the specific platform used for the grooming was recorded by the police. The NSPCC said it showed society was "still waiting for tech companies ...