Six Fake Names, One Predator, and the Digital Silence That Let Him In
- Kirra Pendergast
- 28 minutes ago
- 2 min read
A 14-year-old girl in Greater Manchester was groomed across Discord and Snapchat by a man pretending to be six different people. Not one platform raised an alert. Not one system joined the dots.
Karl Davies was just sentenced to 20 years in prison. But the real story isn’t what happened to him.
It’s what didn’t happen online.
Every major platform has moderation tools for content. None has a working protocol for how danger moves from app to app, erasing itself as it goes.
When harm crosses platforms, the trail disappears. So does accountability.
We talk endlessly about “AI safety” and “trust & safety,” yet a child can still be groomed across five platforms and there is no shared channel to raise a single, unified flag.
This isn’t just a content and contact problem. It’s a coordination problem.
Until big tech learns to communicate with itself, children will keep paying the price.
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