Do you know what your kids are doing online?
Do you know what your kids are doing online? April 4, 2006 09:19 PM EDT Do you really know what your kids are doing on their computers? Washington focused in on internet child sex exploitation today and you might be surprised at how easy it is for your own child to be victim. It's a growing problem across the U.S., including here in Riverside County. During a hearing on internet child sex exploitation, 19-year-old Justin Berry told members of Congress what happened after he got a webcam for his computer, at age 13. “The webcam, I hoped, would help me meet other teenagers online, maybe even find a few girls my age. That never happened.” Instead, Berry was contacted by sexual predators online, who lured him into the world of internet child pornography. For the next five years, he ran a pornographic website, using his webcam. “While I did not comprehend the magnitude of what was happening when I was 13, as I grew older, I progressively became corrupted and acted in shameful ways.” Here in Riverside County, 51 people were recently arrested for being part of a child internet sex ring. Corporal Dennis Gutierrez says children are huge targets. “Before, we used to tell our kids be careful the boogeyman on the corner. Now, because of the internet, we're inviting these bad people into our living rooms and into our children's bedrooms.” We asked local teenagers about their internet use and they admitted that strangers could easily find them through the popular AOL Instant Messenger, or MySpace.com. “Most people have digital cameras and they just post pictures.” “Some younger girls just post up pix of themselves all over on sites.” Gutierrez says the best way to protect your child is to keep a tight watch over what they're doing on the computer. “Parents have to be more involved in their children's lives, they should be asking them what are you doing, what are you doing in your room.” But according to the teenagers we talked to, parents aren't paying much attention to what kids do online. “It's so easy to make a site and get on there and not tell them.” “Unless they have full control over their kids, they're not going to know about it.” But full control over your kids is just what law enforcement says is necessary to keep children safe. http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=4726956

I don't know exactly where to post this so if a mod wants to move it, I understand. I am sick to my stomach. I have found 3 pedophile sites online and I'm providing the links. http://sns.puellula.com/Main.html Sugar and Spice. "Welcome to the site for all young girls who want to learn more about love and about people called girllovers." This is a site made by a pedophile to groom YOUR little girls into believing that sex with adults is a good thing and beautiful. OMG! http://puellula.com/ Puellula - A Celebration of the Splendor of Little Girls (run your cursor over the left picture of the little girl and see what it says.) :evil: http://theboyloveblog.blogspot.com/ "Paiderastia" The Boy Love Revival "Pederasty, as idealized by the ancient Greeks, was a relationship and bond between an adolescent boy and an adult man outside of HIS immediate family. This is modernized in today's culture as gender neutral by a relationship and bond between an adolescent child and an adult outside of their immediate family. In a wider sense this refers to erotic/mentor/spiritual love between adolescents and adults. Building Bridges!" It doesn't matter to me if they have a "Code of Ethics" or if they profess love and happiness and pretty little daisies, it is illegal to touch, molest, fondle, etc. a minor in this country. It galls me that they use phrases like "coming out" or quote Martin Luther King Jr. to spread their mantra. If pedophilia ever becomes legal in this country, I'm leaving. I hope to god people don't allow these mutants to become a legitimate force in this country. As the mother of 2 molested children, I know first hand the confusion, horror and shame these mutants can inflict on kids. And don't give me that "Oh, true boy/girl lovers would NEVER hurt a child" crap. My daughter was groomed and then molested and raped by a "nice" man, my ex-best friend's husband, who had 2 sons of his own and sat in the same pew at church with us. My daughter is 26 now and she still doesn't like or trust men. She was in counseling 2 years because of that fiend. So the arguement of "not hurting but loving" a child is BS! I went after this mutant with a baseball bat. Nothing they can say will EVER make me change my mind about them. They are a scourge of our children's innocence no matter how they try to make others perceive them. Freedom of speech may be just too much of a good thing. When pedophiles and criminals hide behind it, it's an abuse of what our founding fathers envisioned.

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It's just so sad we as parents have to worry about this. And though I'm sure your hubby would get the creep, it would be horrible to have to do so. It reminds me of a saying: "Paranoia is just having all the facts."