In the video, YouTube star Coby Persin sets out to show how easy it is to pick up an underage girl using social media. He makes a fake profile on Facebook, pretending to be a 15-year-old boy. And then with the permission of parents, he friend requests three girls, ages 12, 13 and 14. Over the next few days, he talks to the girls on social media and then makes plans to meet them in person.
Thirteen-year-old Mikayla agrees to get together at a park near her house when her parents leave.
When she arrives, she doesn’t find the 15-year-old she was chatting with on Facebook, but Persin along with her irate father, who screams, “Are you out of your mind? He could have raped you.”
In the final and most shocking scenario, 14-year-old Jenna agrees to meet with Persin after her parents go out on a date. She thinks Persin’s brother will be coming to pick her up, and when she gets inside the van, two people wearing ski masks grab her arms.
She screams, clearly thinking she’s about to be attacked. Then, her mother and father pull off their masks and reveal their identities.
“How could you dare go into a stranger’s car?” screams her father, demanding that his daughter turn over her phone. “We looked at newspaper articles … about all these things that are real-life situations that had happened and we discussed them,” yells her mother, who grabs the phone when her daughter doesn’t give it to her parents.
Persin tells Jenna she obviously thought she was talking to a 15-year-old but it was really him. “You understand now, you should never ever do that again,” he says. “Teach you a lesson for your whole life.”
Source: Parenting lessons from Child Predator Social Experiment – CNN.com
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