{"id":1024842,"date":"2026-07-30T09:10:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024842"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:25:28","slug":"parental-negligence-unfettered-social-media-usage-leading-to-online-grooming-police-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/parental-negligence-unfettered-social-media-usage-leading-to-online-grooming-police-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Parental negligence, unfettered social media usage leading to online grooming: Police Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A prominent social activist has flagged the online grooming and trafficking of minors on social media, but Hyderabad police say no cases involving girls being forced into prostitution have been reported. <\/p>\n<p>What they do confirm is a disturbing pattern across the city \u2014 minors, some as young as 11, are being lured from their homes through social media and online gaming platforms, and in some cases sexually assaulted and blackmailed. Police say parental negligence and unrestricted access to social media lie at the heart of many such cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A prominent social activist has flagged the online grooming and trafficking of minors on social media, but Hyderabad police say no cases involving girls being forced into prostitution have been reported. What they do confirm is a disturbing pattern across the city \u2014 minors, some as young as 11, are being lured from their homes through social media and online gaming platforms, and in some cases sexually assaulted and blackmailed. Police say parental negligence and unrestricted access to social media lie at the heart of many such cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024843,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024842\/revisions\/1024843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}