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With
an estimated 24 million children now online,
one out of five have been solicited for sex
in the last year. (Congressional Study)
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One
in four children were sent pictures of people
who were naked or having sex.
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An
estimated 725,000 children have been "aggressively"
asked for sex, defined as an offer to meet
in person.
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A
top Disney executive was recently arrested
and charged with using the Internet to solicit
sex with a minor
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75%
of children are willing to share personal
information online about themselves and their
family in exchange for goods and services.
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Only
25 percent of the youth who encountered a
sexual approach or solicitation told a parent
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One
in five U.S. teenagers who regularly log on
to the Internet say they have received an
unwanted sexual solicitation via the Web.
Solicitations were defined as requests to
engage in sexual activities or sexual talk,
or to give personal sexual information.
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77%
of the targets for online preditors were age
14 or older. Another 22% were users ages 10
to 13
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75
percent of the solicited youth were not troubled,
10 percent did not use chat rooms and 9 percent
did not talk to strangers
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Only
17 percent of youth and 11 percent of parents
could name a specific authority, such as the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), CyberTipline,
or an Internet service provider, to which
they could report an Internet crime.
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Experts,
both within the FBI and in the private sector,
revealed that the utilization of computer
telecommunications was rapidly becoming one
of the most prevalent techniques by which
some sex offenders shared pornographic images
of minors and identified and recruited children
into sexually illicit relationships.
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Only
1/3 of the households with Internet access
are proactively protecting their children!
