One of the attractions of the Internet is the anonymity of the user, and this is why it can be so dangerous. A child doesn't always know with whom he or she is interacting. Children may think they know, but unless it's a school friend or a relative, they really can't be sure. Often we think of pedophiles as having access to children out on the playground and other places, but because of the way the Internet works, children can actually be interacting on their home computers with adults who pretend to be children.
Child sexual exploitation occurs in every economic, social, ethnic, and religious group. With the explosion of the Internet into a powerful, worldwide medium, the danger to children, whether they are from New York or New Zealand, has drastically increased. Pedophiles and other sexual predators can use the Internet, with no precautions, to exchange names and addresses of other pedophiles and of potential child victims. Hidden behind screen names that are pseudonyms, they gather online and swap child pornography with amazing speed and in amounts beyond our wildest imagination, which excites them to molest even more.
Offline, pedophiles typically operate in isolation. Never before have pedophiles had the opportunity to communicate so freely and directly with each other as they do online. Their communication on the Internet provides validation, or virtual validation, for their behavior. They share their conquests, real and imagined. They discuss ways to contact and lure children online and exchange tips on seduction techniques. They are using the technology of the Internet to train and encourage each other to act out sexually with children. The Internet also serves as a tool for predators to exchange tips on the avoidance of law enforcement detection.
The most common means by which sexual predators contact children over the Internet is through chat rooms, instant messages and email. In fact, 89% of sexual solicitations were made in either chat rooms or instant messages and 1 in 5 youth (ages 10-17 years) has been sexually solicited online (JAMA, 2001). Considering that 25% of kids online participate in real time chat and 13 million use instant messaging, the risks of such children, either knowingly or unknowingly, interacting with a predator is alarming.
2006-11-07 03:00:20
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answered by Anonymous
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Sexual preditors feed off of the young and innocent be it as a leering peeping tom to a sexual deviant whos internal urges and teh psychiological impact usually induced by childhood abuse will escalete their tendancies until they abduct, defile and discard their victim. Yes it is a concrete reality and for those who hide theirs heads it only results in denial. The sad truth is that even with chemical casteration there are so many preditors, be it rapists to pedophiles that use their resources to get what they want and for the most part they are successful. One success is one too many, as a society we need to protect the innocent from the evils of the world. Many individuals whom use the internet use it as a way to maintain contact with their prey. The anomous factor allows the preditor to have a sense of control as he or she is in control of the conversation and the pending outcome. They have to build trust and dependability with their victims which could take months to years and then slowly the context of the conversations are geared towards the possibility of an in person meeting. Now this is not to say that all attempts are successful but all too many are. How can one truely trust what others write on an open medium that is not monitored for safety. The sad reality is that there are too many victims who fall prey to preditors when they are looking for either a meaningful relationship, a friend, a confident and so on. The trusting nature of people has almost been demolished as there is an increase in sexual preditors not being caught or worse yet, for the public, is going years without being noticed or arrested thus making the world to the new or never been caught preditors their own backyard. I hope that helps.
2006-11-07 10:51:28
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answered by psychologist is in 3
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The girl above me could be a sexual preditor so watch what she says to you. (evil laughing)
2006-11-07 18:18:02
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answered by Anonymous
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there are sexual predators online everywhere. especially pedophiles. if you look, you can find info everywhere. Go into a chat room and tell them you're 16 or something and you'd be suprised how many people will contact you.
2006-11-07 10:28:09
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answered by beweird22 4
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