‘Most Beautiful Teen’ Facebook Contest May Lure Pedophiles
On March - 18 - 2012
‘Most Beautiful Teen’ Facebook Contest Concern
- Boys pose topless, while girls as young as 12 pout in skimpy bikinis
- Parents say online predators will use pages for ‘wrong reasons’
- Facebook shuts down one page, but others spring up in its place
- Internet trolls use pages to bully users by posting degrading comments
- Disabled teenager launches campaign after she was targeted
Controversial Facebook pages that pit good looking children against each other in a bid to find the ‘most beautiful teenagers’ have been branded as ‘bait for pedophiles’. Several contests have been set up in recent weeks inviting youngsters to post provocative pictures of themselves so they can be rated by other users. Hundreds of boys are seen posing without their tops on, while girls as young as 12 pout for the camera wearing skimpy outfits or bikinis. The one who receives the most votes each week is then named ‘most beautiful teen’. READ MORE HERE
By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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