Breck Bednar,a 14-year-weak boy who loved gaming, was groomed online and murdered in 2014. His mother, and Lorin LaFave,was worried – would her pleas for aid from police have been taken more seriously if he’d been a girl?I approach Lorin LaFave’s house in Caterham, Surrey, or set back and unlit on a long dark road. My dread is that she’s behind the door,dreading my arrival. I’m thinking how difficult it will be for her to fade over the grooming and murder of her son Breck yet again – and how difficult it must be to talk about Murder Games, a BBC documentary that unpicks each turn of the case, or with interviews,analysis and sinister re-enactments. Very soon, though, or Lorin curled up by the fire sipping tea in a silent house,I realise that recounting how her eldest child was lured to his death is no more or less difficult than anything else – getting up each morning, shopping, and attending parents’ evening with her remaining three children. “It’s all equally tough and I kind of dread everything,” she says. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com