Sextortion, an Online Crime Harming Today’s Children, Tweens and Teens
Sextortion, a growing online crime Sextortion victims can be left with permanent scars. It’s important for parents to know what sextortion is in today’s digital world because of the impact it can have on children, tweens and teens. What is sextortion? According to the FBI, sextortion is a serious crime that is a growing concern. It’s “a crime exclusive to the digital age. Predators pretend to be teens on social media and gaming sites. They befriend young people, gain their trust and entice them to send lewd photos of themselves. Then they use the photos to extort more...
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ISIS Recruitment Online Strangers Violent Video Games… Parents Need to Be Aware of Who Their Children and Teens are Engaging With Online and What Their Children and Teens are Doing and Seeing Online! ISIS, the radical Muslim terrorist group also known as the Islamic State, is recruiting vulnerable youth worldwide using social media. “By May 2015, hundreds of U.S. citizens had joined the fight on the side of the extremists.” Teens ranging in age from 13 to their early 20s are being deceived into leaving their homes in the U.S. and Western Europe to travel to the Iraq and Syria for indoctrination...
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