Police in New Zealand have started to track down a group on Facebook who call themselves 'Roast Busters' who use the site to boast about luring girls as young as 13 into meeting them, getting drunk and having group sex with them. The men have even named some of their victims in videos posted to the site.
Bullying and grooming online has been a problem for a long time but it is becoming more common in the news and is now forcing the government and companies to rethink how the internet social sites are monitored.
The New Zealand PM John Key said that the behaviour of the group was abhorrent but like most crimes committed or bragged about online it's hard to have any hard evidence and therefore hard to prosecute.
New laws are going to be put in place however that allow the police to prosecute those who attempt to sexually humiliate victims online which I think is a really positive move forward because if a embarrassing video or image or anything gets put online, it can quickly go viral and have a huge impact on the victim's life.
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