He made a fake Facebook profile posing as a 15-year-old boy.
With the parents’ permission, he friend-requested three girls aged 14, 13, and 12. After he chatted with them for 3 to 4 days, he decided to meet them in person. He then filmed the meet-ups, along with the parents’ shock and anger over their daughters’ dangerous decisions.
The video was uploaded on August 10 and has garnered 19 million-plus views in just 4 days.
“How easy is it for a pedophile to pick up an underage child using social media?” Coby Persin, 21, who helped three New York-based parents teach their daughters a thing or two about trusting people they meet on the Internet, asks in the beginning of the video, proving in the end that it’s not difficult at all.
After the soicla experiment was over, Corby said there are over 750,000 registered sex offenders currently living in the United States – and perhaps more parents need to have serious discussions with their children about what could happen if they act irresponsibly.
Watch the shocking clip above.
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