TikTok influencer Benji Krol responds to grooming allegations YouTube: Benji KrolTikTok influencer Benji Krol has released a 30-minute video addressing allegations that he and Jorge Garay a.k.a. JeyJey Gardi, groomed a 15-year-old boy, claiming that Jorge had a large part in manipulating the victim as well as Benji. The initial allegations against 19-year-old Benji and 18-year-old Jorge emerged in August when a 15-year-old boy recounted his experiences with the two TikTokers via an anonymous Twitter account. The individual alleged that he had been sent explicit FaceTime screenshots of Benji by Jorge. He said, \u201cthey took advantage of my friendship, and exploited and coerced me, a minor, into doing what they wanted for sexual pleasure.\u201d They also shared screenshots of call logs and messages supposedly sent by the pair as evidence. https:\/\/twitter.com\/defnoodles\/status\/1297187483910672389 After the accusations gained traction on Twitter, Benji released his initial response on August 23. He said his apology had taken longer than expected due to a suicide attempt, though stressed that \u201cit\u2019s not the first time\u201d and was not a direct result of the allegations. He explained that the explicit FaceTime was true, but that he \u201ctold Jorge it was wrong and was very uncomfortable with it.\u201d In addition, he revealed that he \u201cdoesn\u2019t even know the full story\u201d and that \u201cJorge knows everything else,\u201d but he doesn\u2019t have access to that information as Jorge took off to go back to his own home. https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenjiKrol\/status\/1297606074565099521 Jorge\u2019s response to the allegation followed about a week later, on August 30, and stressed firstly that \u201cI am not the victim,\u201d calling his actions \u201cvery wrong\u201d and also claiming he \u201cmanipulated\u201d Benji alongside the victim. \u201cI did sexually talk to the affected person and involved Benji without his permission as well as pressured him into it. I\u2019m sorry to both,\u201d he said. https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeyjeygardi\/status\/1300150694494830592 Nearly a month later, on September 25, Benji uploaded a 30-minute video titled \u201cclearing things up\u201d in which he went into detail about his side of the story. Benji claimed that the alleged victim lied about his age, claiming he was actually 16 (the legal age of consent in Spain) instead of 15. Benji said he\u2019s not \u201ctrying to shift the blame\u201d but instead clarifying the information at the time. He said that on multiple occasions Jorge had sent pictures of Benji to multiple other people without his consent, and included screenshots of Jorge supposedly bragging about it on Twitter, writing \u201cthat awkward moment when you tell your bf you have sent his nudes to a friend.\u201d Revealing that he had come into contact with some of the victim\u2019s friends, Benji shared screenshots of a conversation between them and the victim that, if genuine screenshots, show the victim saying things like \u201cBenji keeps ignoring me, should I just expose him?\u201d At the time of writing neither of the other parties involved have commented further. Benji Krol is TikToker with 11 million followers, with former partner Jorge Garay at a little over 4 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikTok influencer Benji Krol responds to grooming allegations YouTube: Benji KrolTikTok influencer Benji Krol has released a 30-minute video addressing allegations that he and Jorge Garay a.k.a. JeyJey Gardi, groomed a 15-year-old boy, claiming that Jorge had a large part in manipulating the victim as well as Benji. The initial allegations against 19-year-old Benji and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}