Four years after Robyn Cory’s daughter was groomed at 15 on Meta’s platform and sold for sex by a gang, she is still missing
Robyn Cory’s daughter Kristen was 15 when she was allowed to open her own Instagram account. “We thought we’d been responsible and done everything we could to make it safe,” says Cory.
Months later, Kristen disappeared from the family home after being groomed on Instagram’s direct message service by a criminal gang, who then sold her for sex on the streets of Houston.
Her daughter never recovered from her ordeal, Cory says. Kristen returned home but has since gone missing after being trafficked again. Her mother does not know if she is still alive.
Cory blames the gang who trafficked her daughter for destroying her life. She also blames Instagram, which she believes played a critical role in her daughter’s sex trafficking.
“If Instagram didn’t exist, this wouldn’t have happened to my daughter,” she says. “Instagram is why it was so easy [for these people] to do this.”
So my question here is, how does a criminal gang groom someone into being dumb. Because nobody is looking at the other side of the equation here - what causes these (moronic) teen girls to get caught up in whatever web these idiot criminals are weaving for them. Why does this keep happening?
In Utah alone we hear of these stories every day now, someone’s nitwit teenage dumbass daughter falls for some older guy on social media, then agrees to meet them at some clandestine place at an hour when nobody else is awake, and then VIOLA that daughter disappears and is never heard from again, or until the chunks of what’s left of her are discovered in a suitcase on the side of the road somewhere.
Yes, I’m actually placing part of the blame for this on the parents and the kid. It isn’t the fact that Instagram exists that caused this to happen. It’s the fact that their daughter put herself into harms way willingly. We need to be following up on THAT part of the equation - why girls keep doing this and falling victim to these traps. And don’t sell my BS that they can’t “help themselves.” They most certainly can, but they instead make themselves easy targets.