Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:

 EH>>> The anonymity of the Internet and sites like MySpace, Facebook,
 EH> Craig's
 EH>>> List and others give sex offenders an opportunity they would not have
 EH>>> otherwise.

 EH>>> What I find alarming is that parents don't monitor their children's
 EH>>> activity on the Internet. It's astonishing how naive the parents are,

 MG>> That is one of Trench's biggest complaints, "where are this kid's
 EH> parents?"

 EH> Where are they and what on earth are they thinking? They surely wouldn't
 EH> allow their children to walk the streets at night or attend adult
 EH> parties, but they'll allow them to venture out into the Internet
 EH> unattended.

 EH>>> let alone how naive the kids are. That 13 year old girl or boy
 EH> wanting
 EH>>> to be friends is in all likelihood to be a 45 year old sex offender.

 MG>> What amazes me is how many child sex predators fall for the
"I'm a cop
 MG>> posting as a 12 year old girl (or boy) and will go anywhere to have
 EH> sex"
 MG>> and then actually go to the place and get busted for intent to have
 EH> sex
 MG>> with a child under 14.

 EH> That doesn't surprise me in the least. They are trying to fool the 12 or
 EH> 13 year old girl or boy into thinking they are also in their teens. It's
 EH> only fitting that they get tripped up with their own ruse.

 EH>>> Plus, the parents not watching what their little 13 year old girl
 EH>>> posting as pictures. It's shocking!

 EH>>> I tell all my friends and acquaintances who have children to not let
 EH>>> that child have Internet access on a computer that is out of the
 EH>>> parent's sight and to regularly check the browser history and
 MG>> activity.


 MG>> Good advice, hopefully they follow up on it.

 EH> Most do, but some will think it is too much work.

 EH>>> The problem with MySpace, Facebook and other social sites is that
 EH> they
 EH>>> trust each person to be truthful when they sign up for an account.
 MG>> It's
 EH>>> up to the courts and law enforcement to keep sex offenders off the
 EH>>> Internet. Or, at the very least, monitor their Internet activities.

 MG>> In our generation many parents used the TV as a baby sitter, this
 MG>> generation is allowed to use the internet as a babysitter. Both
 EH> were bad
 MG>> moves, the later is far worse.

 EH> Exactly. The TV and/or Internet is *NOT* a substitute for good parenting.

No, indeed it is not.


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L'Chaim,
Mimi

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