Cells, texting give predators secret path to kids - CNN.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 10 Mar 10
  

  a e

  cell phone preditors

  • The same cell phones that parents buy as safety devices for their children are the gadgets that pedophiles and predators use to prep kids for sexual encounters, experts and police say.

  • Before cell phones, laptops and Sidekicks -- a BlackBerry-like device for the younger, hipper crowd -- someone might have noticed that a teacher was "grooming" a child, or being way too attentive, too often.

    Not anymore.
  • "The fact is a teacher can show absolutely zero outward signs of interest in a child, but because of technology, they can have an ongoing relationship and no one would know,"
  • Stalking of adults and grooming of kids almost always involve using electronic devices these days, she said.

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• 20 Oct 08
  

  Niall Cooke

  mediastudies texting

• 21 Mar 08
  

  l.m orchard

  chomos evil kids mobile ohnoes technology

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