How a category eight scholar used WhatsApp, YouTube to torture his household | Know-how Information

KOLLAM: Electrical cables getting burnt, home equipment malfunctioning, abusive and premonitory WhatsApp messages, have been simply among the bizarre experiences a household in Kottarakkara space of this southern Kerala district have been going by means of for previous a number of months and solely after the police intervened that the perpetrator was discovered to be a member of the household — a 14-year previous boy. The apparent questions that come to thoughts are why he did all that and from the place he acquired the information for it.

The police say the boy himself couldn’t give a passable reply to the primary and on being requested he simply mentioned that he felt prefer it. Relating to the second, police mentioned that the boy acquired all the data and information to harass his household from a preferred social media platform — YouTube, which additionally brings to the fore a necessity to watch the cellular and web utilization of kids.

Police mentioned that in line with the boy’s aunt, who lately returned from a Gulf nation, she used to get messages on WhatsApp, from her mom’s quantity, that the TV was going to blow up or the wiring was going to get burned and the identical would then occur.

Nonetheless, a few of these have been exaggerated, a senior police officer instructed PTI.

The burning of the electrical wiring or the TV getting broken occurred a lot earlier than she got here again to India and he or she by no means obtained any messages relating to that, he mentioned.

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The messages she acquired have been that the fan in her room would cease now or the lights there would go off or the water within the overhead tank would spillover quickly, all of which the boy was sending after which he would perform these acts by switching off the identical from the principle energy field, the officer mentioned.

{The teenager} additionally despatched messages containing abusive and inappropriate language and when she would ask who was sending her the texts, he would say the title of her husband with whom her relations have been strained.

The boy additionally positioned within the house a bluetooth dongle belonging to the aunt’s husband to implicate him for all that was occurring.

When the household complained to police and the cyber cell examined the matter, it was discovered that every time the messages have been despatched from the boy’s grandmother’s telephone, the cellular was with him.

“The search historical past of the telephone revealed that {the teenager} was searching for info and movies on easy methods to hack telephones, harm home equipment, unlock telephones, abusive and inappropriate content material and far more,” the officer mentioned.

He additional mentioned that the conduct of {the teenager} was not one of a kid of his age, however somebody a lot older and this was as a result of hostile affect of the unsupervised use of cell phones and the web.