{"id":7861,"date":"2026-07-05T06:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/my-son-was-murdered-by-a-teen-gaming-predator-it-could-happen-to-anyone\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T06:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:13:15","slug":"my-son-was-murdered-by-a-teen-gaming-predator-it-could-happen-to-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/my-son-was-murdered-by-a-teen-gaming-predator-it-could-happen-to-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"‘My son was murdered by a teen gaming predator – it could happen to anyone’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. EXCLUSIVE: Lorin La Fave, the mother of murdered Breck Bednar, is urging the incoming Prime Minister to ‘choose children over big tech’ as she recalls son’s death at the hands of an internet predator<\/h2>\n
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My son was murdered by a teen gaming predator<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

As Lorin La Fave waved her son, Breck Bednar, off on his school trip to Spain in February 2014, she couldn’t have been prouder of the intelligent, handsome young man he was becoming.<\/p>\n

“Beaming” as she watched her 14-year-old son walk away, Lorin had no idea that this would be the last time she would see Breck alive. Following a worrying grooming ordeal at the hands of Lewis Daynes, 19, who targeted Breck in an online gaming<\/a> group, the schooboy appeared to be back on track, bonding with friends of his own age and looking forward to the future.<\/p>\n

He’d even shared a photograph of himself with a girl he liked on social media – the first time Lorin could recall him doing so. Little did the mum know then that the internet predator who’d been hellbent on separating kind, studious Breck from his family had found insidious ways to reach him.<\/p>\n