He believes the scammers went through Gavin’s friends list on social media and sent messages to everyone with a similar last name, including Guffey’s nephew. Law enforcement officials told him not to respond, but he says it took every ounce of strength he had to ignore it. “It said, ‘did I tell you your son begged for his life,’ with a laughing face emoji,” Guffey says. One message, sent to Guffey’s Instagram inbox on August 20, the day Gavin would have turned 18, outraged him. In the weeks after the funeral, the scammers barraged Guffey and his younger son, Coen, 16, with Instagram messages demanding money in exchange for the nude photos. Guffey and his wife, Melissa, have spent months trying to untangle the mystery surrounding their son’s death. Henry McMaster to be signed into law.įor weeks, the family tried to unravel the mystery surrounding his death Lawmakers are expected to send the bill soon to Gov. Under the law, scammers who extort a minor or an at-risk adult will face up to 5 years in prison for a first offense. State senators passed the legislation Thursday – naming it “Gavin’s Law” – as a tearful Guffey watched from senate chambers. His fellow House lawmakers unanimously passed the bill last month. His first order of business was to introduce a state bill to criminalize the type of scam that led to his son’s death. Six months later, after a winning campaign, he assumed office. The cases are contributing to an alarming number of suicides nationwide, the alert said.Īt the time of his son’s death, Guffey, 43, was running for state House representative. Sextortion cases have gone up in the past year, federal officials said in a recent safety alert issued in partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Gavin had unwittingly become a victim of sexual extortion, or “sextortion,” a crime the FBI warns is increasingly targeting underage boys. “What I have seen in these last 45 days, I have not seen in 45 years,” said İnce.Gavin Guffey had just graduated from high school when he died by suicide in July last year. The high-profile deployment of deepfake videos has already hit Turkey’s 45-day election cycle, after Erdoğan played an alleged deepfake that claimed to show banned Kurdish militants declaring their support for Kılıçdaroğlu at a pre-election rally last weekend. The polling organisation Metropoll predicted late last month that İnce voters would predominantly give their votes to Erdoğan’s AKP, the CHP, with some also going to the far-right Nationalist Movement party and the nationalist İyi (Good party) in the parliamentary race. Oğan reportedly cancelled a planned rally and called a meeting of his advisers, but party officials declared he had no plans to withdraw. “Let’s put aside the old resentments,” he told his former rival. Hours after İnce quit the race, Kılıçdaroğlu invited him to join the opposition coalition by tweeting a link to a classic Turkish ballad. Kılıçdaroğlu has led the CHP since 2010, and is spearheading a six-party opposition coalition hoping to defeat Erdoğan after 20 years in power. İnce formed his breakaway Homeland party two years ago after two failed bids to become party chairman of the CHP, plus a failed presidential run. While İnce had long seemed unlikely to win, his dwindling vote share was still enough to ensure that the presidential race would go to a runoff, a scenario observers believe could favour Erdoğan. İnce had a small spike in popularity in the polls in which he peaked at roughly 10% of the overall vote share and more recently dropped down to almost 2% in some polls. Presidential candidate and the chair of Republican People’s party, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.
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