Child Sexual Exploitation In The Cyber World

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The cyber world/reality is the world of computers and communications. An innovation of today’s fast moving, high technology world. Strangers now from every part of the world are able to communicate with one another is remarkable, the world seemingly not so small anymore. Strangers are now a part of our lives like never before, strangers are now a part of children and young adults’ lives like never before. A cyber world with no rules, where someone can become anyone, where predators now have a mask of anonymity and an effective outlet. And children and young adults fall victim to these predators lurking online masquerading as whoever they wish and will exploit through online solicitation. Online communication have created a new type of crime, …show more content…
With this a new definition of the act of sexual soliciting a child; Child sexual exploitation. Child sexual exploitation: (CSE) is a type of sexual abuse in which children are sexually exploited for money, power or status. Furthermore, online sexual exploitation is exposing a child to unwanted sexual content or unwanted material via the internet and to uninvited requests for sexual conversation. It includes employing, inducing, enticing, or coercing a minor to engage in any explicit sexual context for the producing any visual deception of such …show more content…
To catch a predator is an American reality television series that features hidden camera investigations by the television newsmagazine program Dateline NBC. It was devoted to impersonating underage people and detaining male adults who contacted them over the Internet for sexual liaisons. People were lured to meet with a decoy under the pretense of sexual contact and then confronted (Adler).
The series began in 2004, the show consist of a general script. First the decoy, usually a young woman named Dell who works for prevented justice, answers the door for the predator, invites him in, then quickly excuses herself and disappears, the show’s host Chris Hansen then casually strolls in. The predator alarmed usually assumes that Hansen is an undercover cop or Dells father. As Hansen is starting the questioning process, the predator usually insists that he had no intention to act out his online fantasies. This prompts Hanson to go on the attack, Hanson reads back in painstaking, salacious detail the predators sexual chat log with the decoy. The recitation of the sordid chat log goes on to the point where the predator literary begs for mercy, sometimes sobbing, reduced to his knees, pleading with Hanson to please, please stop

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