Teen’s Suicide Highlights Rising Sextortion Crisis Targeting American Teens
By: Chadwick Moore | New York Post
The afternoon that 15-year-old Bryce Tate was sextorted started off as a perfectly normal Thursday.
The Cross Lanes, W. Va., sophomore came home from the gym on Nov. 6, scarfed down a plate of tacos prepared by his mom, then went outside to shoot hoops. At 4:37 p.m., he received a text message from a strange number.
Three hours later, Bryce was found in his dad’s man cave — dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
“They say it’s suicide, but in my book it is 100% murder,” Bryce’s father, Adam Tate, told The Post. “They’re godless demons, in my opinion. Just cowards, awful individuals, worse than criminals.”
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