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Not your fault: “No matter how awful you're feeling at the moment, that will pass and this can be fixed”.

It took just six hours for Jordan Buta to go from scrolling Instagram to taking his own life. The 17-year-old was contacted by scammers pretending to be a girl his age. They persuaded him to send explicit photographs, then blackmailed him for money. He sent what he had — but they threatened him for even more.

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