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Thanks a lot for your article that raises a very important issue for parents. Is it safe to let your child browse through the internet? Here I've got some statistics from a survey by the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center:
# Victims: 76% of victims in Net-initiated sexual exploitation cases were 13-15 (1% were 12), 75% were girls.
# Offenders: 76% were 26+, 47% more than 20 years older than their victims; but deceiving victims about the age difference "was a rare feature of these crimes."
Found in chat profiles: 76% of relationships started in chat rooms, including sites oriented to teens, chat sites for specific geographic areas (e.g., Bay Area, Chicago area), sites about dating & romance, and sites for gay men and women
# Grooming: 64% communicated with their victims more than one month, most "relationships" evolved into "multiple forms of contact": 79% had phone conversations, 48% sent pictures online, 47% sent gifts or money. "Investigators described victims in half of the cases as being in love with or having close feelings of friendship toward offenders."
# Little deception: 21% of offenders hid or misrepresented their motives, but "most of these deceivers were open about wanting sex with their victims." A few posed as friends and then assaulted their victims.
# Face-to-face: "Most cases progressed to face-to-face sexual encounters" - 93% of the face-to-face meetings involved illegal sex.

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