Some go further than that, monitoring their child’s online activity with a view to shielding them from potential pitfalls.

Even so, it’s difficult, if not impossible, to be in all places at once. Children and young teens can be susceptible to dangerous viral trends, not to mention fraudsters and scam artists.

The mother of Caleb Morgan knows this only too well.

On June 10, Caleb, of El Dorado, Kansas, started up a conversation with what he believed to be a “14-year-old girl” on TikTok, with the chat then moving to Snapchat.

As per the Daily Mail, Caleb’s mother, Morgan, alleges the other person sent compromising images of ‘herself’ to Caleb, who then sent pictures of himself in return.

Things then took a turn for the ominous, with the