Must maintain eye in your tech fanatic baby – This Kerala boy proves it! 

By PTI

KOLLAM: Electric cables getting burnt, home equipment malfunctioning, abusive and premonitory WhatsApp messages, had been simply a few of the bizarre experiences a household in Kottarakkara space of this southern Kerala district had been going via for previous a number of months and solely after the police intervened that the wrongdoer was discovered to be a member of the household — a 14-year outdated boy.

The apparent questions that come to thoughts are why he did all that and from the place he acquired the data for it.

The police say the boy himself couldn’t give a passable reply to the primary and on being requested he simply mentioned that he felt prefer it.

Regarding the second, police mentioned that the boy acquired all the data and data to harass his household from a preferred social media platform — YouTube, which additionally brings to the fore a necessity to watch the cell and web utilization of kids.

Police mentioned that in line with the boy’s aunt, who not too long ago returned from a Gulf nation, she used to get messages on WhatsApp, from her mom’s quantity, that the TV was going to blow up or the wiring was going to get burned and the identical would then occur.

However, a few of these had been exaggerated, a senior police officer informed PTI.

The burning of the electrical wiring or the TV getting broken occurred a lot earlier than she got here again to India and she or he by no means obtained any messages relating to that, he mentioned.

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The messages she acquired had been that the fan in her room would cease now or the lights there would go off or the water within the overhead tank would spillover quickly, all of which the boy was sending after which he would perform these acts by switching off the identical from the primary energy field, the officer mentioned.

The teenager additionally despatched messages containing abusive and inappropriate language and when she would ask who was sending her the texts, he would say the identify of her husband with whom her relations had been strained.

The boy additionally positioned within the residence a bluetooth dongle belonging to the aunt’s husband to implicate him for all that was taking place.

When the household complained to police and the cyber cell examined the matter, it was discovered that at any time when the messages had been despatched from the boy’s grandmother’s cellphone, the cell was with him.

“The search history of the phone revealed that the teenager was looking for information and videos on how to hack phones, damage appliances, unlock phones, abusive and inappropriate content and much more,” the officer mentioned.

He additional mentioned that the conduct of {the teenager} was not one of a kid of his age, however somebody a lot older and this was because of the adversarial affect of the unsupervised use of cell phones and the web.

KOLLAM: Electric cables getting burnt, home equipment malfunctioning, abusive and premonitory WhatsApp messages, had been simply a few of the bizarre experiences a household in Kottarakkara space of this southern Kerala district had been going via for previous a number of months and solely after the police intervened that the wrongdoer was discovered to be a member of the household — a 14-year outdated boy.

The apparent questions that come to thoughts are why he did all that and from the place he acquired the data for it.

The police say the boy himself couldn’t give a passable reply to the primary and on being requested he simply mentioned that he felt prefer it.

Regarding the second, police mentioned that the boy acquired all the data and data to harass his household from a preferred social media platform — YouTube, which additionally brings to the fore a necessity to watch the cell and web utilization of kids.

Police mentioned that in line with the boy’s aunt, who not too long ago returned from a Gulf nation, she used to get messages on WhatsApp, from her mom’s quantity, that the TV was going to blow up or the wiring was going to get burned and the identical would then occur.

However, a few of these had been exaggerated, a senior police officer informed PTI.

The burning of the electrical wiring or the TV getting broken occurred a lot earlier than she got here again to India and she or he by no means obtained any messages relating to that, he mentioned.

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The messages she acquired had been that the fan in her room would cease now or the lights there would go off or the water within the overhead tank would spillover quickly, all of which the boy was sending after which he would perform these acts by switching off the identical from the primary energy field, the officer mentioned.

The teenager additionally despatched messages containing abusive and inappropriate language and when she would ask who was sending her the texts, he would say the identify of her husband with whom her relations had been strained.

The boy additionally positioned within the residence a bluetooth dongle belonging to the aunt’s husband to implicate him for all that was taking place.

When the household complained to police and the cyber cell examined the matter, it was discovered that at any time when the messages had been despatched from the boy’s grandmother’s cellphone, the cell was with him.

“The search history of the phone revealed that the teenager was looking for information and videos on how to hack phones, damage appliances, unlock phones, abusive and inappropriate content and much more,” the officer mentioned.

He additional mentioned that the conduct of {the teenager} was not one of a kid of his age, however somebody a lot older and this was because of the adversarial affect of the unsupervised use of cell phones and the web.