Ted Cruz

A predator, a foreign predator.

Who then began blackmailing him and saying, I'm going to take this picture that you just took.

You just took a naked picture of yourself and sent it to me.

I'm going to send this picture to your family.

I'm going to send it to your parents.

I'm going to send it to your friends.

I'm going to send it to everyone.

Unless you give me money.

Sextortion.

And tragically, this teenage boy took his life.

The entire exchange from the first interaction to when he took his own life was 90 minutes.

And his father shared that story, but that's the power of shame of this teenager who had taken a picture thinking he was flirting and then the terror of, if I get exposed for that, which look, compared to being a victim of sexual assault, taking a picture of yourself

is not nearly as severe and yet that shame was so powerful that that teenage boy took his own life i mean this is the pressures on our kids i they're enormous and they face things that that technology amplifies all of this

Very different.

We were playing Super Mario Kart.

One in three kids will be propositioned sexually online.

Yeah.

Well, Elizabeth, thank you for taking your pain.

I know you miss your brother.

I know you feel the pain every day.