Baby Roleplay - The Instagram game using stolen photos of other peoples children - BBC Tr

If youre a parent whos posted a picture of your child online, the role-playing game #BabyRP may make you double check your privacy settings.\r
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Players take photos of children harvested from other peoples accounts. They then post the stolen pictures to their own Instagram account with a new name and an imaginary storyline, inviting others to role-play being daddy, mummy or child.\r
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BBC Trending spoke to one mother who discovered dozens of photographs shed posted of her son being used on a so called virtual adoption Instagram account. \r
Instagram told us This type of content violates our terms. Once a parent or guardian reports it to us, we work quickly to remove it. \r
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