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Cyberangels would like to thank Newsweek for their articles on pedophiles online. Our expertise, along with the expertise of other leading groups, was gathered in order to provide a true picture of how Internet sexual predators operate online. The only issue not covered completely was the place where victims of online predators can seek help, and resources to prevent online crimes. We are proud to have contributed to this important series of articles and are proud to provide help to victims and law enforcement in this area.
While there have been thousands of cases opened each year in the U.S. alone of online predators seeking to sexually molest children, we have learned that each is preventable. In each and every case, the child or young teen has gone willingly to meet a stranger they knew only online.
Our studies have shown that an average of 12- 13% of teen girls polled, between the ages of 13 and 16, admitted to meeting online strangers offline. Family PC Magazine�s surveys show numbers even higher than those.
For more information about our survey, send us an e-mail. To read a chapter from Parry�s new book, The Parent�s Guide to Protecting Your Children Online (McGraw-Hill), on the anatomy of an online predator, click here. They are typically white, upper-middle class professional men, well educated and not previously charged with child molestation. They often molest children while on business trips. They rarely consider themselves child molesters, and see themselves instead as "dating young." And our children far too frequently fall prey, believing them to be cute 14 year olds.
