The lawsuit filed on Friday describes how the Ministry of Energy, then a high school student, was not yet gay, Grindr was downloaded to make friendships with other minors. Then exchange pictures and explicit messages with the four adult men, who raped him in their homes or in the gardens, according to the complaint.
After the teenager witnessed in their criminal trials, three of the four men later convicted of sexual intervention with a child and a prison for periods ranging between 24 and 54 months, according to the lawsuit. The fourth did not happen.
The company accused of realizing that its products are facilitated by rape, the lawsuit is equivalent to Grindr with other organizations such as scouts in America and the Catholic Church that “indicated the exploitation of sexual assault on children.”
He accuses GRIINDR of marketing for children of preserving accounts on Instagram and Tiktok, and social media platforms where many brands contain other dating applications to alcohol companies – on accounts.
The lawsuit also highlights two video clip Tiktok, which have been removed since then by GRIINDR, where adults’ content creators demonstrate that they are students outside a secondary school or in a physical education semester. The lawsuit claims that the latter “is explicitly in an elementary school, a middle school, or a high school.”
“Through this video on Tiktok, GRIINDR directly markets for children and targets them with messages indicating that Grindr should be used in school, and that children should be used.”
Grindr Teltok account,, Which has more than 138,000 followers, routinely seized by adults content creators who publish videos on behalf of the company.
The lawsuit claims that GRINDR could have prevented the treatment of the Ministry of Energy by employing the verification service of a third party, which requires a government identifier to use the application, or prevent its use in schools, among other things.
“Apple and Google and the entire technology industry need to work together to develop a better technology for gates that respect the user’s privacy.
The Ministry of Energy is sued Grindr for defective design, defective manufacturing, defective warning, neglect, and neglect. It also submits a civil lawsuit Under a section of the United States icon Who deals with human trafficking.