{"id":92,"date":"2025-10-29T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/?p=92"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:52:08","slug":"australian-girls-influenced-to-commit-acts-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/2025\/10\/29\/australian-girls-influenced-to-commit-acts-of-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Girls Influenced To Commit Acts Of Violence By Online Crime Gangs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Australian Girls Influenced To Commit Acts Of Violence By Online Crime Gangs<\/h2>\n

Australian girls are being coerced into acts of violence – against themselves, their siblings or pets by online crime networks in a twisted type of gamification, according to the police.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“New and distributing front traditional gender-based violence”, Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Krissy Barrett said in a speech on Wednesday, as they set up a new taskforce to help tackle this global issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Australia, three people have been arrested and a total of nine people around the world who have similar cases.<\/p>\n

According to Ms Barrett, the alleged perpetrators held violent extremist views and wanted to hurt people “for fun”.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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These online crime influencers target youth between their early 20s and early 30s with low self-esteem, from Western backgrounds, through gaming platforms like Roblox or messaging apps like Discord and Telegram.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The boys and men, whom Ms Barrett calls “crimefluencers”, subscribe to a variety of ideologies – including nihilism<\/a>, sadism, Nazism and satanism –\u00a0<\/b>and they target girls with low self-esteem and mental health disorders.<\/p>\n

“These groups have a similar culture to multiplayer, online gaming culture, and hunt, stalk and draw in victims from a range of online platforms,” she said, adding that they may not fully understand the consequences of their behaviour.<\/p>\n

“The motivation of individuals within these networks is not financial nor is it for sexual gratification \u2013 this is purely for their amusement, for fun, or to be popular online.”<\/p>\n

According to Ms Barret, almost 60 alleged offenders had been identified in Australia alone, and the AFP was working with other Five Eyes nations – the US<\/a>, UK, New Zealand and Canada – to target the groups.<\/p>\n

Tech companies are also helping police develop an AI tool which will help detect emojis and slang used as code when discussing sadistic online exploitation in encrypted communications.<\/p>\n

Ms Barrett’s speech\u00a0<\/b>comes as Australia prepares to introduce a world-first social media ban for kids under 16<\/a>, aimed at minimising online harm. However gaming and messaging platforms are exempt from the new laws, which come into effect in December.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australian Girls Influenced To Commit Acts Of Violence By Online Crime Gangs Australian girls are being coerced into acts of violence – against themselves, their siblings or pets by online crime networks in a twisted type of gamification, according to the police.\u00a0 “New and distributing front traditional gender-based violence”, Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Krissy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/example.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}