The man who sent the text forwarded a nude photograph of her, the source of which she couldn’t figure out. “I was a complete mess, I didn’t trust anyone, I was in complete self-destruct mode.” “I had a really unstable home life, and I didn’t have good support around me,” Rachel told me recently, while sitting on her bed in a fluffy white bathrobe. She had just returned home from a party and was in her bedroom. Rachel lived with her mother, stepfather, and siblings in a midsize town in the United Kingdom. One night in 2017, a fifteen-year-old girl named Rachel received a WhatsApp message from a number she didn’t recognize. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
