This may be off topic, I apologize. But wasn't there a criminal case recently where this happened to a girl, the boy she was talking to was actually an older guy LARPing as his son? The father was transparent about who he was, but in addition pretended to be his son in all the messages to this girl. It turned out the son was never sending any messages to this girl or even know about her but the father use this to infiltrate the girl's life. Really sounds like a "cyberbully" movie plot, but I could see Wendy doing this the opposite way: luring people in with her son as bait, putting herself in their lives here and there, while controlling the account of her son without this people's knowledge. Not an allegation but something I think hypothetically would not totally shock me, based on Wendy's previous treatment of her son, documented here. She already has used her son's "coolness" (ergh) and youth to attract clout people and brands. So why she would not use her son to make friends with people who would otherwise find her boring, but who are interested in Desmond for whatever reason they may have...?