The eight-year-old's stepfather, Salvatore Schachter, said the messages sent to his family became 'increasingly personal, dark and dangerous.'
The family-run Twitter account of a young girl who went viral for posing in photos mocking New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been pulled. The family claims to have received death threats for using their daughter to parody photos of a visit Ocasio-Cortez made to a migrant detention camp last year."Mini AOC," an 8-year-old girl named Ava Martinez
Ocasio-Cortez had attended the protest at the Tornillo"tent city" in Texas just days before she defeated 10-term incumbent Representative Joe Crowley in one of the biggest upsets in the lead-up to the November midterm elections. After the Mini AOC Twitter account joined in on mocking Ocasio-Cortez over the shoot, social media users were quick to condemn Ava's family for using an 8-year-old to send a political message., the condemnation quickly turned ugly, with the 8-year-old's family claiming to have received death threats and harassment.
While Schacter did not explicitly say what contents the messages contained, he said they were"increasingly personal, dark and dangerous."
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