With risky behaviors or risky posts online the chance of meeting someone who can “help” or “relate” to the same problems as others is pretty high. This is where sexual predators come in. If a teen is going through a rough time and they feel like they can’t relate to anyone or talk to anyone they might feel the need to talk to a strange person. Many sexual predators are actually family, friends, or acquaintances. They will use the internet to build trust with the intended victim and they also have a significant advantage over a stranger. Strangers that approach teens online will first try to befriend them and try to build a trusting relationship with them. If a teen is already befriended by their predator then everything is already one
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Sometimes the predators will even manipulate the victim into posing for pictures or to take their own picture and send it to them. This can eventually be very damaging for teens if someone finds out or if things go too far. Encounters with the predator can be very bad and sometimes deadly and in most cases there will be psychological trauma for years to come. A lot of times teens will run away from home or even result to prostitution. 1 in 6 endangered runaways reported that they were likely sex trafficking victims. 68% of these victims were in the care of social services or foster care when they ran. Now some teens want these connections with random people while other teens do not. 34% of kids had unwanted exposure to sexual material online, 27% of kids also reported unwanted sexual exposure to a parent or guardian, and 14% of children between the ages of 10 and 17 received sexual solicitation. Out of the 14% that received solicitation, 3% received aggressive solicitation such as speaking on the telephone or receiving money or a gift from their solicitor. Previously it was mentioned that Elizabeth Racine was the mother of three teenagers. The internet seems to have always caused problems for her, though. When her son was nine years old, he typed in “boys.com” to find some …show more content…
Bullying on the playground has been around since the beginning of time and it’s somewhat easy to escape from it just by simply not going to school or even changing schools. Bullying on the internet, however, is something that no one can escape unless there is no internet use at all. Rebecca Kullback made it a point to say that, “Kids no longer have the safety of being able to go home and escape bullying.” This is such a true thing that many kids and teens have to deal with. According to Attorney Parry Aftab, “lots of kids think it’s worse to be bullied online than in person. If you know somebody intends to sock you in the face in the schoolyard, you might be able to avoid them, take a different hallway, follow a different route home. But cyber bullying follows you wherever you go- to, your new school, even to your grandma’s house.” Things that kids and teens post online directly toward someone can be very nasty and degrading. A vermont 13 year old, Ryan Halligan, silently endured cyberbullying for a month while taking everything that was thrown his way. Ryan began making suicidal comments but no one ever noticed, the taunting and degrading just continued. One night Ryan posted, “Tonight’s the night.” In response one of his classmates said, “It’s about time.” Ryan proved them right that night and hung himself. In San
Sometimes the predators will even manipulate the victim into posing for pictures or to take their own picture and send it to them. This can eventually be very damaging for teens if someone finds out or if things go too far. Encounters with the predator can be very bad and sometimes deadly and in most cases there will be psychological trauma for years to come. A lot of times teens will run away from home or even result to prostitution. 1 in 6 endangered runaways reported that they were likely sex trafficking victims. 68% of these victims were in the care of social services or foster care when they ran. Now some teens want these connections with random people while other teens do not. 34% of kids had unwanted exposure to sexual material online, 27% of kids also reported unwanted sexual exposure to a parent or guardian, and 14% of children between the ages of 10 and 17 received sexual solicitation. Out of the 14% that received solicitation, 3% received aggressive solicitation such as speaking on the telephone or receiving money or a gift from their solicitor. Previously it was mentioned that Elizabeth Racine was the mother of three teenagers. The internet seems to have always caused problems for her, though. When her son was nine years old, he typed in “boys.com” to find some …show more content…
Bullying on the playground has been around since the beginning of time and it’s somewhat easy to escape from it just by simply not going to school or even changing schools. Bullying on the internet, however, is something that no one can escape unless there is no internet use at all. Rebecca Kullback made it a point to say that, “Kids no longer have the safety of being able to go home and escape bullying.” This is such a true thing that many kids and teens have to deal with. According to Attorney Parry Aftab, “lots of kids think it’s worse to be bullied online than in person. If you know somebody intends to sock you in the face in the schoolyard, you might be able to avoid them, take a different hallway, follow a different route home. But cyber bullying follows you wherever you go- to, your new school, even to your grandma’s house.” Things that kids and teens post online directly toward someone can be very nasty and degrading. A vermont 13 year old, Ryan Halligan, silently endured cyberbullying for a month while taking everything that was thrown his way. Ryan began making suicidal comments but no one ever noticed, the taunting and degrading just continued. One night Ryan posted, “Tonight’s the night.” In response one of his classmates said, “It’s about time.” Ryan proved them right that night and hung himself. In San