Several tweets were removed from the adult’s account by Twitter before they could be archived.

NBC News did not directly view the adult reposting photos of the boy. On the Hunter Fox Twitter account, the adult interacted directly with the boy’s account, where he posted selfies of himself on a school bus and in other locations. When the police corrected the error several weeks later, Twitter did not immediately respond, police said.įive days later, the teen was abducted, according to prosecutors and the McConneys. Twenty-five days before the abduction, police sent a search warrant to Twitter to learn more information about the man police believe was grooming the teen. Hunter Fox repeatedly talked about a trip he said the two would go on together. In tweets reviewed by NBC News, the accused adult identified as a “map” - a common online abbreviation for “minor-attracted person.” excitedly referred to the teen as “my lamb.” Both the teen and the Hunter Fox account made frequent references to the online furry community - a group of people who roleplay as anthropomorphized animal characters. The McConneys reported the situation to local police in November and surrendered the boy’s iPhone after discovering explicit text messages between the boy and a man believed to have gone by on Twitter.

NBC News is not naming the teen because he is a minor. This report is based on a review of archived online messages, state and federal court filings made in the two active criminal cases involving the suspect, interviews with the parents of the teen, interviews with law enforcement officials who worked on the investigation into the abduction, and an interview with the teen himself while his mother was present. “I need to move forward and figure out what the hell happened,” Heather said. It came after a series of missed opportunities over the span of nearly a month, where, they said, Twitter and law enforcement failed to effectively intervene despite an abundance of information posted online. Heather and Ken McConney, the boy’s parents, told NBC News that they believe the kidnapping was preventable. The boy was allegedly abducted by the man accused of grooming him, driven across state lines, and, prosecutors said, repeatedly sexually assaulted. The boy’s father went to check on him one night and found him missing, his window open, the bedroom freezing.

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