Internet Predators Defy Categorization
This week in Florida 20 online predators were arrested in a single sting -- all of them had driven to the same county thinking they were going to have sex with a naive kid they'd met on the Internet.
As is always the case, these men cut across any identifying categories; they come from all ages, races, and economic stations in life. Some worked with children every day at Disneyworld, and some were students, railroad employees, plumbers, and more.
This is why it's so difficult to predict the danger when your child goes online. An Internet predator can be just about anyone, from anywhere, and they can masquerade as someone they're not.
And there are a lot of them.
According to the FBI, there are 50,000 Internet predators online at any given time. Which would explain that while 20 men were arrested this week, the same investigating team is still watching 100 more. And after that, there will be 100 more, and on and on.....
While it's wonderful to see law enforcement working to protect kids today, every parent should still install good parental control software on their computer.
Awareness Tech's WebWatcher is the perfect example: it can do website blocking, website recording, email recording, chat recording, and more.
This way, parents can also be working to protect their kids today, even when they can't always be there to do it in person.
As is always the case, these men cut across any identifying categories; they come from all ages, races, and economic stations in life. Some worked with children every day at Disneyworld, and some were students, railroad employees, plumbers, and more.
This is why it's so difficult to predict the danger when your child goes online. An Internet predator can be just about anyone, from anywhere, and they can masquerade as someone they're not.
And there are a lot of them.
According to the FBI, there are 50,000 Internet predators online at any given time. Which would explain that while 20 men were arrested this week, the same investigating team is still watching 100 more. And after that, there will be 100 more, and on and on.....
While it's wonderful to see law enforcement working to protect kids today, every parent should still install good parental control software on their computer.
Awareness Tech's WebWatcher is the perfect example: it can do website blocking, website recording, email recording, chat recording, and more.
This way, parents can also be working to protect their kids today, even when they can't always be there to do it in person.
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