Moroccan Activists Expose TikTok Sexual Predator Targeting Minors

The activist says she has seen on TikTok the publication of screenshots of a conversation between a 12-year-old girl and an adult man who was demanding photos of her, although aware of her young age. The man in question is followed by 136,000 subscribers on TikTok and 8,500 on Instagram, Lamya tells Médias24.

After this publication dated August 15, 2022, Lamya and two other activists, Sarah Benmoussa and Hamza Bensouda, launched a call for witnesses on social networks, which allowed them to collect about ten testimonies about similar facts. "He always follows the same approach, demands nudes and sexual relations. It’s always the same process," explains Lamya. But she could not do anything to denounce him without a complaint from the parents of the minors, a cell of the police in Casablanca, specialized in cases of violence against women and girls, told her.

"They are very psychologically affected and afraid of their parents. They feel ashamed, which is why it is very difficult for them to talk to them about it. So we contacted associations. One of them even received us, collected all the evidence and undertook to transmit it to the King’s Prosecutor, but we have no more news and our requests have remained unanswered," says Lamya Ben Malek. The activists exposed the problem in a letter addressed to the King’s Prosecutor at the court of first instance in Casablanca.

But they were unable to file this letter because they were "sent from one court to another"