Sadistic ‘sex cult’ forced teen to live stream own suicide, group leader on trial
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Jay Taylor’s bed is empty as the door swings open on the second storey of the 13-year-old’s home in the picturesque maritime city of Gig Harbor, southwest of Seattle.
It’s 6am on January 17, 2022 and the teen should be sleeping.
His parents, Leslie and Colby, are accompanied by a police officer who has woken them for a welfare check.
“We came because of your son,” the officer begins.
Jay’s father interrupts him.
“He did it, didn’t he?”
Every parents’ worst nightmare is about to be confirmed in the most disturbing of circumstances.
Jay had taken his own life outside a convenience store in town 30 minutes earlier. He had done so with a phone propped up in front of him, filming his last moments for an anonymous audience online that had pushed him there.
As the family grappled with the reality of what had taken place and the loss of their precious little boy, an online post had been published on the messaging app Discord.
“Someone killed themselves on camera because of me,” it read. “Let me know if you want the video.”
The group Jay had been speaking with is known as 764, named after the zipcode of the 15-year-old boy who started it a year earlier.
Jay had posted on Discord overnight a message that read: “I’m looking for friends, preferably LGBTQ for crochet buddies. He was, according to his mother, lonely and in the midst of a gender transition but crafts were his escape.
Almost immediately a response came back. He was looped into a live chat with several individuals and within an hour told he should take his own life.
The ringleader, it is alleged, was a 21-year-old German-Iranian medical student residing in Hamburg, Germany, who the FBI identified through his handle “White Tiger”.
The man, known only as Shahriar J because of privacy rules, is now on trial for murder in a case that could have sweeping consequences.
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