Warning: Graphic content. The “Occupy Pedophilia” movement, which sets traps online for young gay men and posts videos of the attacks, has sprung up across Russia in the last year. LGBT activists blame the government’s campaign against “gay propaganda” for egging them on.
Anti-LGBT activists in the city of Belgorod, near Russia's border with Ukraine, posed online as a gay 15-year-old and lured South African student David Smith, 20, into a sting.
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First they taunted him and asked him if he wanted to have sex with a cat.
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Then they shaved a line down his head and painted it...
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Forced him to kiss a watermelon..
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