Sydney, Oct. 30 -- Australian girls are being hunted by online crime networks and coerced into acts of violence - against themselves, their siblings or pets - in a "twisted type of gamification", police have warned.
A new Australian taskforce has been set up to help the globe tackle this "new and disturbing front in traditional gender-based violence", Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Krissy Barrett said in a speech on Wednesday.
Three people have already been arrested in Australia, and another nine people around the world, reports BBC.
The nature of the acts being committed by targets were not detailed, but Ms Barrett says the alleged perpetrators hold violent extremist views and want to hurt people "for fun".
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