A 17-year-old boy who forced 117 girls to self-harm, perform sex acts and carve his alias on their bodies has today been jailed.
Justin Swaddle, now 20, led a campaign of violence in a Com group, an online community that shares extreme graphic material and manipulate victims to commit violent and sexual child abuse.
Members of these disturbing online groups mainly consist of teenage boys vying for attention and notoriety rather than sexual desire.
The more extreme the crimes and abuse committed, the more status a young person operating in these forums will achieve.
Swaddle’s devices were found to contain alarming images of victims
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