Category Archive for : ‘INTERNET SAFETY’

Eric Wahl, a 42-year-old millionaire Manhattan advertising executive, thought he made a date for sex with a 13 year old girl he met on the Internet but his alleged date turned out to be a girlish-looking undercover female detective.  He told the girl to wear her school clothes for their rendezvous.  When they met in Greenwich Village last October and he took her to a nearby hotel room, paying in cash under an alias, he ended up getting handcuffed, fingerprinted and arrested on charges of disseminating indecent material to minors,

On Friday, Republican presidential candidate John McCain told a town meeting at the Greenville Public Library that libraries and schools that offer unlimited Internet access to children should not receive federal money.  He suggests libraries use web filtering devices to limit access to sexually explicit material.  When a mother or father drops their child off at the library they are entrusting the welfare of their child with the librarian, he said.  McCain disagreed with the American Library Association assertion that unlimited Internet access was free speech.

(Greenville, South Carolina)

NEW YORK  

About 35 computer security experts and high-tech professionals in Australia have formed a virtual neighborhood watch, policing the World Wide Web for sites peddling child pornography and in some cases they hack into the site and take them down.  They claim to have taken down

115 web sites already, 85 to 90 of them in the United States.  Members of Condemned.org say they are not vigilantes.  Their activities could make prosecution of these offending web sites more difficult some lawyers and even some crusaders against pornography suggest.

NEW YORK

A computer in a child’s room can be a doorway to an electronic fantasyland that can lead to abduction, rape and even murder.  Sexual predators in New York City sit down at their computers, every night and search for girls and boys ages 11 to 14.  Some of these predators may actually unknowingly be talking to a female in her 30s, who is armed with a semiautomatic and carrying an FBI badge.  An undercover operation, called Innocent Images, that the FBI has been building for the last two

TEXAS

Parents must go beyond the stranger-danger warnings to protect children online.  Lt. Bill Walsh, who oversees the Dallas Police Department’s child exploitation and family violence units said, Just like with traditional cases, there is a prevention role that parents and other people have to play.  Two men have been arrested in the last week, accused of having sex with teenage girls they met online in chat rooms.  Girls are meeting men for sex through chat rooms in the Dallas area.  There have been at least five cases since last

Reporter Fred Francis reports on way to keep your children safe from predators on the internet.  Experts say when parents don’t talk to their kids, online predators could.  One way to fight back is parents can install blocking software in their kids’ computers.  Parents must realize that kids do go looking for porn and could end up victims.  The only real protection is talking to kids.