At 17 years old, Ryan Last had many interest. He was a straight A student at Ann Sobrato High School in Morgan Hill, a Boy Scout, a second degree black belt, and an animal lover.
“He truly fell in love with the raising of the animals and even my younger son has now taken on to that and so he’s raising a lamb also,” his mom Pauline Stuart shares.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, like most kids, Ryan also spent a lot of time online.
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“We had all parental controls on there,” Stuart said. “He couldn’t download any apps without requesting or approval we had at a certain time, I believe it was nine o’clock. He couldn’t get to certain certain apps. But the problem is, we gave a little bit more freedom with some of the apps because they were used for school work also.”
That extra phone time is when Ryan turned into a victim of an increasing crime, called sextortion.
“Someone portrayed themselves as a young girl showing interest in, and then they just carried on a conversation for hours before they started targeting him with pictures and stuff like that,” Stuart explained. “They built this trust, they sent him a picture at asked for one,…
