When the screen becomes the crime scene: What the Malmesbury teen case spotlights
But child-protection and mental-health specialists warn that the answer is not to treat online harm as something detached from ordinary life, or to assume that only ‘bad’ children are drawn into dangerous online spaces.
Omar says a particular warning sign is a child becoming involved in an online community that demands secrecy or gradually pushes them toward increasingly extreme content or behaviour.
A child in the dock and the online crisis we can’t keep ignoring The case has understandably provoked shock.
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