Come on parents! What does it take to police your child's online experience? I'm not trying to play holier-than-thou here, but parents MUST take responsibility for their children's environment. Where was his mother in all this? She claims to have had no idea what he was up to. He ran an internet porn business from his bedroom for years. Look at the case of Justin Berry, who testified before Congress yesterday. You HAVE to be aware of what your child is doing online. But for every deviant brought before the bar of justice, hundreds more continue to troll unencumbered for new victims. Brian Doyle was caught by a small sheriff's department in Florida that has decided Internet predation is an important enough issue to warrant a computer crimes unit. Law enforcement does what it can to combat this nightmare of pedophilia. Nearly 1 in 5 reported knowing a friend who has been harassed or asked about sex online by a stranger. A recent survey conducted for the Polly Klaas Foundation found 25 percent of teens say they have talked online about sex with someone they never met in person. The exploitation of children over the Internet is already a $20 billion dollar a year business, and business is exploding. The Internet can be a wonderful tool, but it is also home to a lot of dark places where predators aggressively pursue innocent victims. It even brings pedophiles together in a common community where they assure each other what they're doing is not morally or criminally wrong.

What's more, the Internet not only offers perverts a quick and clear line to potential victims, it also offers a network for these deviants to plot and plan the best way to approach young people and how to manipulate them. As the father of a 14 year old girl, I find that statistic incredibly troubling. You might be frightened to know that as many as 1 in 4 children who go into Internet chat rooms have been contacted or propositioned by a pedophile. We're going to take a long look at the issue of Internet predators tonight, how prevalent they are, the support systems the Internet offers them, and how the web has truly become an information superhighway for deviant behavior.

If what Polk County, Florida, police allege is true, it would not only be a grievous crime, but an abrogation of trust with the American people.

The arrest last night of a Department of Homeland Security official on child predation charges has thrust the issue of Internet pornography/predators to the top of the news today.īrian Doyle was the deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, a position that puts him on the front lines of helping to protect this nation.

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