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Protect Your Children
from Internet Predators
(Danbury-WTNH/AP, Mar. 21, 2002)
Danbury police are getting ready to charge a Greenwich man in the death of a sixth grader from Danbury. Authorities say Christina Long and Saul Dos Reis met on the Internet and he killed her during sex.
Long's father says he would "give anything to take that computer back." He tells the News-Times of Danbury that there was "no hint" of what she was doing with the computer.
(Massachusetts, Aug. 14 2002)
A 15-year-old Massachusetts girl was kidnapped, held captive, tortured and raped by a New York couple she met in an Internet chat room, police say.
James Warren, 41, and Beth Loschin, 46, held the girl for a week in their Long Island, N.Y. home, where they repeatedly assaulted her sexually and beat her, police said.
"During the assault, the victim was physically injured and subjected to humiliating and dehumanizing acts.
Police say Warren and Loschin convinced the high school sophomore to meet them Aug. 3 at the Wrentham, Mass., outlet mall where she worked.
The girl had told them in an online chat room that she wanted to run away from home, and they offered to help. But it didn't take long for her to realize she had made a mistake.
"After about an hour, she knew she was in over her head," police said.
"The teen was handcuffed and bound with rope much of the time." She also told investigators the suspects kept her blindfolded and locked in a closet.
(Monroe-WTNH, June 19, 2002)
A 27-year-old man was arrested at his Wallingford home on charges he raped a 16-year-old girl he met on the Internet.
Monday night Monroe police arrested a Wallingford man because a teenaged girl from Monroe says he raped her. Police say the two never would have met if not for an internet chat room.
Somewhere in suburban Monroe a 16-year-old girl met 27-year-old Carlos Decarvalho in a chat room.
Washington Post, Sunday, January 6, 2002
The Pittsburgh teenager who vanished from her home on New Year's Day and was discovered Friday in a Herndon town house was quietly reunited with her family yesterday at Manassas Regional Airport, then flown back to Pennsylvania in good condition, her family said.
Scott W. Tyree, a computer programmer, the man accused of driving her from Pittsburgh to Northern Virginia and then chaining her to his bed ...
They apparantly met online and corresponded for several weeks before she dissappeared.
Software to Protect your Kids
An easy solution to these problems is the inexpensive blocking software readily available today. This content filtering software allows parents of all computer skill levels to control which sites are visited on the Internet. With some additional Internet monitoring software, you can even read IM messages and e-mail. Some software takes photos of the computer screen and e-mails them to your computer periodically. This allows you to protect your kids while you're at work.
As "Internet Kidnapping," cases become more public, more parents will take an active interest in keeping their kids safe online. By monitoring their children, parents can make the Internet a safe place for kids to learn about the world.
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