Parents, is your child being radicalised online?

Lone cub: The 16-year-old youth who tried a kidnapping in Sungai Petani. — G.C.TAN/The Star

THE dreaded phone call from the police. Every parent knows the fear of receiving that “bad news” phone call – “your child is ill”, “was involved in an accident”, or even “caught shoplifting”. It is enough to make a parent’s heart stop.

Now we need to brace for ­another type of bad news call: that your child is a member of the so-called Islamic State (IS) terror organisation.