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Brianna Ghey’s mother calls for children to be banned from social media apps

2024-02-05 00:00:00.0 独立报-英国新闻原网页

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The mother of murdered teenager Brianna Ghey has called for smartphones to be made available for under-16s without social media apps.

She is also campaigning for searches for inappropriate material to be flagged to parents.

Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe were both 15 when they killed Brianna, 16, with a hunting knife after luring her to Linear Park, Culcheth, a village near Warrington, Cheshire, on February 11 last year.

Jenkinson had watched videos of torture and murder online.

Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe have been sentenced to life in prison

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Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe have been sentenced to life in prison

(PA Media)

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Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, Esther Ghey said: “We’d like a law introduced so that there are mobile phones that are only suitable for under-16s.

“So if you’re over 16, you can have an adult phone, but then under the age of 16, you can have a children’s phone, which will not have all of the social media apps that are out there now.

“Also to have software that is automatically downloaded on the parents’ phone which links to the children’s phone, that can highlight key words.

“So if a child is searching the kind of words that Scarlett and Eddie were searching, it will then flag up on the parent’s phone.”

Brianna Ghey’s mother Esther Ghey said more safeguards should be in place so children cannot access dangerous content

(PA Wire)

She said if the searches her daughter’s killers had made had been flagged, their parents would have been “able to get some kind of help”.

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