FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It started at 11 years old.
Seanna Martinez didn’t realize it at the time, but she was being groomed online. By 14, she had connected with a man on a hookup app called HUD, an app she chose specifically because it didn’t have an 18-plus age restriction.
“It’s supposed to be an app where you have FWB, which is friends with benefits,” she said. “I kind of just looked for something that was not necessarily for adults.”
She remembered specifically seeking it out: “I remember specifically back then I didn’t want to get on an adult dating site because the age restriction was like, ‘Oh, 18 plus.’ But I remember that that app, HUD, at least back then, I believe it wasn’t 18 plus.”
The man went by the alias “Adam0041.” He was actually Osher Mamion, a 30-year-old who wasted little time. His first message asked her age. When she told him she wasn’t 18, he responded, “Sexy.”
Within minutes, they moved from HUD to Snapchat, then to Instagram, where they video-chatted between 11 p.m. and midnight. Over two days, according to a court affidavit, Mamion convinced Seanna to send him explicit photos of herself.
Seanna said older men had been pulling her in for years before Mamion:
“At that time, I was honestly speaking to so many guys online who were older than me, who would genuinely just control me,” she said. “We would be on the phone for hours at night, and that was part of the grooming process. I feel like that’s kind of where I got this idea — ‘I’m just into older men’ — but the reality was I was really just into the affection that I was receiving, and I just kind of made that my identity.”
The two eventually agreed to meet in person. Seanna tried to back out, texting that they should meet another day. Mamion pushed back, telling her he had taken off work.
“I wanted to back out, and I remember making up a bunch of excuses, just being like, ‘No, I can’t do it,’” she said. “And he was very adamant, saying, ‘Oh, I took off of work — how could you do this to me?’ and so on and so forth. I eventually — I didn’t really know how to say no — just said, ‘OK, we’ll meet up.’”
Mamion picked Seanna up from her middle school in North Miami in a blue SUV and took her back to his apartment.
“I kind of just remember feeling icky, because even though online it was one thing, in person it was just kind of having someone who was ready to take advantage of you. It was very weird,” she said.
The relationship ended after Seanna casually mentioned Mamion to her sister, who was a year older. Her older sister took her phone and drove her straight to the police department. North Miami Beach police contacted the the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Mamion admitted to investigators that he had exchanged explicit photos with Seanna but claimed he didn’t know she was 14.
Seanna now wants parents to understand what she didn’t have: boundaries around cell phone use.
“Having boundaries with my cell phone, definitely placed by your parents — I would say they unfortunately placed too much trust in me and my cell phone, but my cell phone had predators on it,” she said.
Her message to parents is direct:
“I would say to set clear boundaries with your kids and their cell phone usage — whether that’s literally physically removing it from them at a certain time, checking it frequently, checking who they’re talking to, checking the apps that they have. That’s what’s going to help prevent things like this from happening.”
And even when kids push back, she says parents need to hold firm.
“I believe that it is the parents’ responsibility to do everything in their power to make sure their kid is safe. So even if there’s pushback, they need to step up and be a parent and make sure that their child is not in danger, because at the end of the day, if it’s not you, it’s going to be the predator who’s looking after your kids.”
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