NetFamilyNews.orgChild sexual exploitation has long been part of the Internet safety discussion, so here’s a tip for good prevention online and offline: We need to talk with and listen to our children using correct language that’s free of cultural taboos – and keep the communication channels wide-open. “Child-sexual-abuse educators believe teaching and confidently using universally [...]
A disturbing story about the sexual misconduct of teachers in Los Angeles Unified School District is not about technology but it highlights some issues we’ve been addressing in the Internet safety field. “The reopening of an investigation into teacher misconduct at a high school in Hollywood and the initiation of another in … is leading [...]
The latest federal figures for child sexual abuse (2008) show a 58% decline between 1992 and 2008.
This is about thoughtful, helpful legislation that, according to the New York Times’s editors, offers “a blueprint that federal lawmakers would do well to follow.” New York’s governor, David Paterson, just passed the Safe Harbor for Exploited Youth Act, which presumes “young children arrested for prostitution are victims of sexual exploitation.” These are children likely [...]
The Supreme Court has upheld criminal penalties for promoting, or pandering, child pornography, the Associated Press reports. “The court upheld part of a 2003 law that also prohibits possession of child porn…. The law sets a five-year mandatory prison term for promoting, or pandering, child porn. It does not require that someone actually possess child [...]
A Canadian man could get a life sentence for allegedly tricking or coercing at least 12 teenaged girls, one as young as 14, to pose nude for him in front of a Webcam, The Register reports. Daniel Lesiewicz, 27, of the Montreal area, “was arrested in March and charged with possession and production of child [...]
If your kids start getting credit card offers in the mail, it’s no joke. It’s quite possible their identities have been stolen. A way to find out is to check with the Social Security Administration, to see if they have earnings reports, SCnow.com in South Carolina reports. Just how can this happen? It’s actually not [...]
There will soon be Internet Crimes Against Children task forces in every US state, TechnologyNewsDaily.com reports. “The Department of Justice announced that 13 new state and local law enforcement agencies will receive more than $3 million” to form the task forces in Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South [...]
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