Mum claims FOUR paedos on Snapchat asked her son, 9, to send them pics of his private parts
The mum was left horrified to discover messages from 'a ten year old girl' had an eerie undertone
A MUM has claimed a FOUR paedos asked her nine-year-old son for pictures of his private parts on Snapchat.
Following months of pestered mobile phone the unnamed mum finally decided to treat her son to a smartphone.
But just a month into being the proud new owner of a smartphone she claims her nine-year-old from Swansea was sent a spew of filthy messages from paedophiles who posed as kids from the area.
The boy was asked to send pictures of his private parts and after refusing to do so was told to 'stop being a baby'.
Rather than being a group of ten-year-old girls the horrified mum discovered the messages had an eerie undertone.
"We told him he could only accept family and people from school on social media.
"He only thought it was okay to chat to them because they said they were his age and from Swansea.
"Last weekend he told us he had been contacted by someone claiming to be a 10-year-old girl on Snapchat who then asked him to send a picture of his private parts.
They told him to 'listen and just do it and stop being a baby.'"
The boy refused and chose to tell his mum about the ordeal.
As soon as she was told about the messages she realised straight away something wasn't right.
"They were asking my son weird questions like how tall are you? Normal ten-year-olds don't ask that.
"Then they followed my son on Instagram and that's when I noticed their email addresses were unusal. It directed me to somewhere strange which was an indication it was fake.
"Two of my friends have also come forward to say the same people asked their children to send pictures of themselves.
"He took a photo but luckily he didn't send it. He said that he felt pressured into doing it but thankfully he didn't."
A spokesman for South Wales Police confirmed they were investigating an incident of alleged online offences involving an adult and a child.
The mum believes more should be done in schools to teach children about the dangers online.
"Snapchat is the most dangerous social media took out there. Once the message is sent you can't see them again which makes it so hard to trace the person. We need to try and protect kids from these sick people."
The claim comes two months after the app introduced its SnapMap feature that allows users to share their exact real time location.
Concerns were raised after fears it would put kids at a higher risk of being stalked and bullied.
Chidlren's charity NSPCC gave 2,132 counselling sessions on child sexual exploitation online including online grooming, online sexual harassment and engaging in sexually explicit activity online - up 44 per cent from the previous year.
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