{"id":36271,"date":"2025-08-28T15:41:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=36271"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:41:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:41:29","slug":"14-year-old-boy-died-after-being-sextorted-by-girl-online-usa-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=36271","title":{"rendered":"14-year-old boy died after being \u201csextorted\u201d by \u2018girl\u2019 online \u2013 usa news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content single-content\">\n<h3 data-start=\"64\" data-end=\"114\">Teen\u2019s Suicide Linked to Online \u201cSextortion\u201d<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"115\" data-end=\"220\">The mother of 14-year-old Caleb Morgan says he died after falling victim to a \u201csextortion\u201d scam online.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1794805\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 data-start=\"222\" data-end=\"243\">How It Happened<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"244\" data-end=\"501\">On June 10, Caleb started chatting with someone he thought was a \u201c14-year-old girl\u201d on TikTok, later moving to Snapchat.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"244\" data-end=\"501\">According to his mother, \u201cthe stranger made him feel like his life was over as he had made this mistake\u201d after sending private photos.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"503\" data-end=\"527\">The Tragic Outcome<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"528\" data-end=\"774\">The scammer demanded money to keep the images private. Caleb even \u201csent a photo of the gun\u201d before taking his own life at home.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"528\" data-end=\"774\">\u201cWhen I got there Caleb was still alive and breathing but they were unable to resuscitate him,\u201d his mother recalled.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"528\" data-end=\"774\">\n<h3 data-start=\"776\" data-end=\"799\">What Police Found<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"800\" data-end=\"1012\">Investigators later uncovered the messages.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"800\" data-end=\"1012\">\u201cIt had stolen my boy\u2019s happiness and hope in a 35-minute span,\u201d Morgan said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"800\" data-end=\"1012\">The FBI warns that sextortion scams use explicit images to demand money or more content.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1743972\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1795289\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content -->&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teen\u2019s Suicide Linked to Online \u201cSextortion\u201d The mother of 14-year-old Caleb Morgan says he died after falling victim to a \u201csextortion\u201d scam online. How It Happened On June 10, Caleb &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36273,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36271\/revisions\/36273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}