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Mum shares sick messages online groomers sent her nine-year-old as she warns other parents to know the signs

A MUM has warned other parents to know the signs of online grooming after her nine-year-old son was targeted by predators. 

Sharni*, from Australia, exclusively told Kidspot what she found when looking through her son’s phone one day, after his behaviour drastically changed over the last two months. 

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    • She added: “Us, as parents, need to sometimes be overprotective because this could have been so much worse.”

    Sharni said parents “need to be made aware” of online grooming, adding parents shouldn’t “think it won’t happen”.  

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