College students charged in ‘catch a predator’ assault as seen on social media
Associated Press— Six Massachusetts college students are facing charges after police say they assaulted a man who had been tricked through a dating app into visiting campus as part of a “Catch a Predator” trend on social media. Campus police said they determined her report was false after reviewing the surveillance recordings and finding that “first person perspective videos” were being circulated among students. The student said that “catch a predator is a big thing on TikTok currently but that this got out of hand and went bad,” according to the police statement. Last month, 11 teenagers in Illinois were charged in two separate assaults on men who had used online dating apps, and investigators “learned that some of the teenage offenders got this idea through a viral social media trend they saw online,” Mount Prospect police said in a news release.
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