Last year, police investigated 15 cases of sex assaults involving a dating app. One victim told police they were given an unknown narcotic and then sexually assaulted.
Another victim said they were kicked in the groin and abdomen before being held down and forcibly sodomized. In another case, the victim said the sexual assaulter fired a shotgun into the air. Muriel Hughes. Another piece of advice is to face-time the person before meeting in person. Take a screen shot of the face-time and give that screen screen shot to a friend or relative so someone else knows what the person looks like.
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