The teens, all males 17 and 16, were charged with aggravated battery, criminal damage to property and mob action. Some allegedly took inspiration for the crimes from social media.

Summary

Eleven Illinois teens face felony charges after allegedly luring two men via dating apps and assaulting them last July.

Inspired by a viral social media trend, the teens attacked a 41-year-old and a 23-year-old in separate incidents, damaging vehicles and using slurs in one case, resulting in hate crime charges for one teen.

All suspects turned themselves in and were detained at a juvenile center.

Police urge parents to discuss the dangers of social media trends with their children to prevent such incidents.

  • Hideakikarate
    61·
    4 days ago

    It says right in the summary at the top that all the teens were 16 or 17.

    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
      12·
      4 days ago

      What it doesn’t say is what age they presented themselves as when luring these people out to be assaulted.

    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
      1·
      4 days ago

      Yeah but did they tell the people they were luring that they were 16 and 17? If so they were pedophiles and I don’t mind.

      If they pretended to be 18 and it was assumed to be a consensual encounter then throw the book at those kids.