Church Internet safety night with cop who poses as teen
Want to know how young people are enticed to run away and meet up with online strangers they don't know? Or how a predator can get enough information out of your child to track him or her down?
This conversation with a local police officer who poses as a teenager can answer your questions.
"The officers and deputies who go out and talk to these groups aren't just saying, 'This is what the statistics are showing us," said Cpl C.E. Williams of the Greensboro Police Department. "... They are coming from the point of view that we are online and we know this is happening because we are seeing it."
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Something we all need to recognize is that it's not just the "dirty old men" we picture in our minds as cyber predators. Spend a day or two in a local middle or high school and watch and listen to what kids are saying, texting, emailing, myspace-ing, facebook-ing, bebo-ing to each other. There's a ton more sexual predation out there than you realize and most of it comes from their peers. Middle schools girls sending pics of themselves doing things you won't even see on late night Cinemax. I'm almost scared to confiscate a kid's phone this day an age for what I might see when I flip it open to turn it off. Parents need to get their heads out of the sand and realize that yes, you’re kid is doing it, too.
Posted on March 10, 2009 4:18 PM