The incident in a virtual world reportedly left the under-16-year-old traumatised.

Police are investigating a virtual sexual assault of a girl’s avatar, the chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners has said.

Donna Jones said she had learned that a complaint was made in 2023, triggering a police inquiry.

The virtual incident did not result in physical harm but caused “psychological trauma”, the Daily Mail has reported a source as saying. Police chiefs have called on platforms to do more to protect their users.

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The impact of the attack on the girl’s avatar was said to be heightened because of the immersive nature of the VR experience.

    • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      What a fucking dumb comparison. Your whataboutism argument is shit.

      I think it’s a horrible idea. But if that’s the point of the game, then it’s expected. And just by playing the game, you’re giving consent for this to happen because that’s the whole point of the game and therefore it’s not rape.

      The VR game the teenage girl was playing was not a rape game. She didn’t play that game to experience virtual rape. What happened to her is a form of sexual harassment and that’s a form of sexual abuse, which young girls and women are overwhelmingly the most frequent victims of this kind of abuse.

      Instead you’re all here continuously defending the guys who harassed the girl, trying to find some stupid fucking argument to excuse their horrible behaviour with whataboutism and red herrings and all kinds of bullshit instead of questioning the men’s behavior.