Australian Teens Accused Of Beating Gay Men With Crowbars And Machetes After Luring Them Via Grindr

Australia’s ABC outlet reports:

Two teenage boys have been accused of hate crimes as part of an alleged catfishing scheme using a dating app to lure gay men to meet face-to-face before attacking them. The two boys, aged 15 and 16, appeared in a Perth court on Thursday charged over the alleged assault of two men in their 30s yesterday morning. Late on Thursday afternoon, police revealed they had charged a further two teenagers, aged 16 and 17, in relation to the incidents.

The prosecutor told the Perth Children’s Court a group of boys used the gay dating app Grindr to “lure” victims to a location by posing as a man interested in having a sexual encounter. She told the court when the alleged victims arrived, they were confronted by

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