The allegations are beyond chilling: two students at US university Virginia Tech charged with the premeditated kidnapping and killing of a 13-year-old girl who, authorities say, communicated with her murderer online. But the way they chatted — on a wildly popular messaging app called Kik — has increasingly become a source of concern for police. The death of Nicole Madison Lovell, a liver transplant and cancer survivor from Blacksburg, Virginia, has put Kik — widely used by teenagers but not as well known to adults as Snapchat or Instagram — in the spotlight at a time when law enforcement officials say it has been linked to a growing number of abuse cases. Neighbours say that...
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