A Michigan teenager was arrested for child pornography in 2016 for allegedly selling nude pictures and videos of herself online.
The 15-year-old told authorities that she used an account on Kik – where she reportedly was known as ‘YourFavoriteBunBun’ – to make her sales.
She allegedly made around 20 sales and over $1,000 (£680) from the online business for more than a year, but relatives who found out about it told her mother, who then called police. Her case is ongoing.
A Secret Service agent who sexted an undercover police officer posing as a 14-year-old girl also allegedly admitted to sending obscene pictures and message to two other underage girls.
Lee Robert Moore, who worked as a uniformed officer at the White House, was arrested in an online sting by Delaware State Police in November last year.
In an affidavit, Detective Kevin McKay said he was first contacted by Moore on social media app Meet24, but then agreed to chat using messaging app Kik, as it allows the exchange of images and videos.
A 15-year-old from Ohio was kidnapped and held against her will by a 41-year-old man after she told him she was unhappy at home on Kik, police said.
Alexis ‘Lexi’ Boroviak, 15, was rescued by authorities 23 days after going missing in Marthasville, Missouri, a nine-hour car drive away from her home in Brooklyn, Ohio.
Chris Schroeder is facing federal and state charges after authorities found evidence that he had engaged in sexual intercourse with the teenager.
A Philadelphia mother was sentenced to 25 years in prison for offering her six-year-old daughter for sex to a man she met in a chat room on Kik Messenger.
Christine Yoder pleaded guilty in March last year to two counts each of producing child pornography and distributing sexually explicit photographs.
Authorities said she offered to fly her eldest daughter to Detroit to have sex with a man she met in a Kik chat room, where she went under the user name ‘freakygirl82.’
A 14-year-old Alabama girl was found hanged in her bedroom after exchanging messages about auto-erotic asphyxiation with strange men she met on Kik.
Sydney Dane Sellers was found dead in her home in Pell City by her mother, who later turned her daughter’s iPhone on.
When Kik opened up, she saw what her daughter had been messaging at the time of her death.
An Arizona woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison and lifetime probation for seducing teenage boys while pretending to be a 15-year-old girl.
Anna Areola-Hernandez, 24, of Glendale, pleaded guilty to three counts of child molestation. She admitted to authorities that she had sex with a 13-year-old boy, but told him she was 15, after the boy’s mother called police.
Prosecutors said she used messaging apps including Kik, Snapchat to lure multiple teenage boys.