Seventeen-year-old Gavin Guffey met who he thought was a woman online, but their flirtatious exchange turned out to be a much darker scheme. His politician father, South Carolina Rep. Brandon Guffey, went to kiss him goodnight one evening but instead found his son dead in the bathroom. Now, Gavin’s father is on a quest to make sure no other child falls victim to sextortion.
Politician’s 17-year-old son takes his own life due to sextortion scheme

the internet was a mistake. holds too much power over people.
Parents we need to speak to our children and pray with them, remind them every chance we get how beautiful they are. Evil is resident among us, we need to be very vigilant. Our children are so important, let them know that they have a place in the world.
Condolences to his family. 😭😭😭😭💔💔💔
dumbass
The father has a Shriner cap in it’s office shown in plain sight for the news. They are letting the other masons/shriners know what they’ve done to the poor kid.
That guy is a Shriner. He a is pdfile who did this to his son
Nigerian-style hate.
holy smokes. he will never forget the image of his dead son. hope the best for you sir and RIP
How awful that Gavin had to live with a father like him, and how tragic that karma for his dad’s cruelty and bigoted life fell on a child and not him. I don’t know if Gavin shared his dad’s beliefs and “deserved” this, like some might suggest, but even if he did, he was still just a child, and children are often influenced by their parents to join them in evil.
Shame is a bitch. REST IN PEACE SWEET BOY
This is a really common thing. My info is very public online and I am targeted in 1 way or another with 30 scams a week, not being a teenager and never having posted dodgy pics online I have no stress (My assumption is their links are to hack my computers). Most scams are trying to take websites / or fb pages from me, anyhow it is something that Teenagers need to be aware of as everything is blown out of proportion when you are 17. EVEN if he had posted dk pics.. the blackmailers say they will send them to family, FAMILY ARE NOT GOING TO OPEN THEM! My top tip to any teen trapped in this situation is tell them to go fk themselves as the pics are fake.
This is very evil and needs to be investigated by the authorities to stop it. I’m so sorry this happened to your son
Kid creates and distributes CP then self deletes after somebody threatens to expose his criminal activity?
I’m so happy they got the guy, most of them get away with it. My daughter had this happen she was 14, I was so angry but I told my daughter this was a grown man who’s doing this and a pervert and looks at pictures of young children. So we blocked them and ignored them and they finally knew it wasn’t working on this family I knew it but never told my husband.
Nothing being done until they get to taste it themselves.
damn, what a beautiful kid.
When are they going to start sanctioning countries where these notorious scammers are from? WHEN?! It is clear that the Governments of such countries (mostly horribly corrupt countries), will NEED to be held accountable or else this will continue unabated. Rip to the young man. NO PARENT need to go through this…..!
Very handsome young man
When you're a kid small things seem big, everything is about right now, not enough life experience to give a situation time to work it's way out.
HORROR!!!!! Hope he is in his "heaven" in peace and harmony. Such a waste for the world.
The usual suspect
I feel like he was only caught because it was a politician’s son
Dad, you have a tough burden to carry. Compassion goes out to you.
Justice for him
Hard to feel bad for white people what with the slavery and racism an all 🤷♂️
I pray Justice is served in the harshest way possible. Absolutely EVIL.
You know with me being at my 50s most of us we understand extortion. And would be like why did a person do that. Luckily people around my age we miss that early 2000s late 1990s when everything went to hell and the handbasket over the internet. That's why his father could not see or understand why he was burying his child. The mindset of that next generation. That is basically grown up with a computer and a telephone don't go outside. Don't know how to hold a conversation on the telephone. I think about high school when I used to spend two three hours on the telephone with one female😊 unfortunately these young people like this their whole world is connected with social media and something that we would be embarrassed about. But wouldn't dare think to get a gun and commit suicide. God forbid is the answer to a lot of these younger people and it's extremely sad. And for him to have two of his songs being targeted. I hope he can regain some of his peace. As we see now it's nothing but about the money. May God bless you all. Have a good day😊
I’m confused what’s the big deal with his nudes being exposed ?? The scammer must have asked him to take some pic that would make his sexuality be in question. RIP young man
There was an episode of Black Mirror that dealt with this. Better to get harrassed and live.
Why wasn’t this guy charged with child endangerment? Obviously he left is gun in reach of his minor children. Had this happened to you or me, they’d put us in jail.
❤ my son is 10 right now and just imagining this is frightening 🙆♀️
Lord; please protect our children; may this young man RIP 😢😢😢😢😢
What a senseless tragedy! What was Gavin afraid of, anyway? He was hot – even if the Nigerian creep released his naked pics, everyone would just like them.
Listen you need legalized prostitution in this society these boys do anything to have sex with girls or to have any girlfriend the majority of men today are in cells or they've had only one or two girlfriends in their lives. You need to legalize prostitution so that these boys have an outlet and don't have to worry about getting robbed by fracking Nigerians
LOL
Ana ♥♥♥♥♥👑👑👑👑👑