Online Predators Defy Profiling
Washington County was recently stunned when a teacher and one-time school principal from New York was arrested for preying on a girl he met online. He is a 37-year-old online predator, and she is only 15.
The man's status as an upstanding citizen with no criminal record may seem shocking, but as it is reported at enterprisepub.com, there is no "cookie cutter" profile for a child predator. Except for their gender (the vast majority are male), these online predators can be of any race, age, educational, and social level.
Why is this epidemic happening?
Online security experts believe that the anonymous nature of the Internet allows many men to pursue these kinds of tendencies without the same fears of discovery and punishment that would have been the case before.
And, vulnerable kids who are lonely, bored, or naive also respond to the anonymity of the net -- social pressures are much easier to negotiate online, and many kids lose track of a real social hierarchy when communicating with adults online.
Then again, sometimes these kids think they're talking to someone their own age, when they're really talking to an online predator hoping to manipulate them.
These are more than enough reasons for parents to purchase parental control software.
Awareness Tech's highly rated WebWatcher is perhaps the best product on the market; it allows parents both website blocking, and website recording features. These are combined with a program that records every chat, email, and photo that your child receives, giving parents a full picture of their child's Internet "buddies."
The man's status as an upstanding citizen with no criminal record may seem shocking, but as it is reported at enterprisepub.com, there is no "cookie cutter" profile for a child predator. Except for their gender (the vast majority are male), these online predators can be of any race, age, educational, and social level.
Why is this epidemic happening?
Online security experts believe that the anonymous nature of the Internet allows many men to pursue these kinds of tendencies without the same fears of discovery and punishment that would have been the case before.
And, vulnerable kids who are lonely, bored, or naive also respond to the anonymity of the net -- social pressures are much easier to negotiate online, and many kids lose track of a real social hierarchy when communicating with adults online.
Then again, sometimes these kids think they're talking to someone their own age, when they're really talking to an online predator hoping to manipulate them.
These are more than enough reasons for parents to purchase parental control software.
Awareness Tech's highly rated WebWatcher is perhaps the best product on the market; it allows parents both website blocking, and website recording features. These are combined with a program that records every chat, email, and photo that your child receives, giving parents a full picture of their child's Internet "buddies."
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