A North Carolina mother reportedly used a popular but controversial tracking app to catch her son having sex with his high school teacher in her car.
The unnamed mother had installed Life 360 on her son’s device and became suspicious when she was alerted to his absence from rugby practice.
Instead, the app showed it was idle near a local park.
The mother drove to the location in Mecklenburg and found him red-handed with South Mecklenburg High School teacher Gabriela Cartaya-Neufeld, 26, according to WSOC.
After taking several photographs of the vehicle and the educator’s license plate, the surprised mother called the police to the scene and Cartaya-Neufeld was detained.
The mother, police said, had heard rumors about her son’s illicit relationship before and was already on high alert before he missed practice.
Gabriela Cartaya-Neufeld was allegedly caught having sex with a high school student. MECKLENBURG COUNTY JAIL
Cartaya-Neufeld, a science teacher, had a tryst with the teen in her car, inside her mother’s home and at her own residence, prosecutors said.
Rumors of the illicit union had also been circulating around the school for months before the arrest, prompting administrators to question both the teen and his teacher, the district attorney said at Cartaya-Neufeld’s arraignment.
The educator was charged with five counts of felony sexual activity with a student by a teacher.
The victim’s mother used the Life 360 tracking app to capture the couple. Vida360/Facebook
She was initially taken to the Mecklenburg County Jail late last month, but has since bonded out.
Life 360, which counts Mark Zuckerberg’s sister Randi as a board member, has become increasingly popular among “helicopter” parents hoping to monitor their children.
The technology can ping a parent if the device holder is inside a speeding car or has left a previously designated area.
Life 360 has about 50 million monthly active users and was expected to make $300 million in profits this year.
Rumors of the illicit union had also been circulating around the school for months before the arrest, the district attorney said at Cartaya-Neufeld’s arraignment. google maps
But critics have questioned the app’s pervasive and sometimes oppressive presence, as well as its data collection practices.
Anti-human trafficking activists have suggested that victims are being tracked through the app, while company representatives have called such cases outliers.
Teens and young adults whose parents use the app have also complained, with entire Reddit threads dedicated to how to trick or disable it.
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