A coroner is urging internet restrictions after a teenager died imitating online acts. Photo / Getty ImagesBy RNZA coroner is calling for restrictions on the internet, after a teenager accidentally died while imitating acts he saw online. An inquest by Coroner Michael Robb found the Bay of Plenty teen had become interested in violent pornography and had made “troubling” internet searches the day before his death in 2024. He was found dead, after disappearing overnight, and Coroner Robb believed he had attempted to imitate what he had seen on the internet. “I consider he [was] in some way endeavouring to mirror what he had seen in the internet searches in some kind of experimental or exploration context,” his report said.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 05, 2026 19:26 UTC