Sex text shocker as six-year-old boy receives lewd messages
Date February 12, 2015 - 8:17AM
Isobel Ewing
Dayna Alldridge and her son Tyler, six, whose phone has been receiving texts from random numbers requesting sexual favours. Photo: Andy Jackson/Fairfax NZ
A six-year-old New Zealand boy with a new mobile phone has been receiving text messages intended for a prostitute.
New Plymouth woman Dayna Alldridge was "really grossed out" when she saw the texts.
"I thought it was pretty disgusting, considering it was a brand new cellphone and SIM," she said.
The most recent text to her son Tyler's phone came through on Tuesday evening, offering $NZ20 ($19) for a sex act. The caller signed off with "Let me know. Xx."
Ms Alldridge rang one of the callers and the man who answered told her he got the number from the Taranaki Daily News personal section.
"When I rung [sic] the guy he was shocked too," she said. She questioned him further and he "freaked out a bit" and hung up.
Tyler's number is different by one digit from a number in an advert placed by a prostitute.
The brother of family friend Ricki O'Neill bought the phone three weeks ago, but his own SIM card did not work in it, so Mr O'Neill gave the phone and its unused SIM card to Ms Alldridge to give to Tyler.
Soon after they put the new SIM card into the phone, texts of a dubious nature started coming through, Mr O'Neill said.
"All of them have been related to sexual favours."
When Ms Alldridge contacted another of the sexters they turned the tables and asked why she was giving a phone to a six-year-old.
Ms Alldridge gave Tyler the phone to keep track of him when he goes hunting with his father.
The prostitute did not answer calls.
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