Y does it seem like crimes that r committed over the internet r worse than the crimes commmitted in person?

Some of the stories I see or hear that have 2 do w/ the internet r so much more heinous than crimes committed in person? I have heard horror stories or have seen them that have involved internet crimes concerning rape or murder, only when it comes 2 the internet, those crimes r much more horrific when they’re committed. Y is that?

I assume you mean when someone meets someone over the internet, and then they meet in person, these people sometimes fall victim to being raped or murdered…(via the person they met). I think it seems more horrific because the people that are raped or murdered are usually naive, trusting, young, desperate, and seem more "Victim" then another victim might have been. It makes the news seem more horrible when we hear it was a 18 year old woman who’d fallen victim to a 47 year old man masquerading as a 22 year older, and her loneliness made her an easy target. We all know someone who is lonely, or looking for love. Perhaps our mother, our sister, perhaps even ourselves. It’s easy to see ourselves in that picture, and easy to live in denial that the man or woman WE converse with is on the level. NOBODY is to be trusted who lives behind a screen, the sooner we remember that, the sooner we can stop internet crime.

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