Online Predator Statistics
It’s heartbreaking, and it happens. Virtually every day, children are exploited and lured away from their families by cyber sexual predators. The FBI is committed to stopping these crimes through our Innocent Images National Initiative. Based in Maryland, it joins FBI agents with local and international task force members who collaborate in online undercover investigations specifically geared towards stopping those who prey on our children. READ MORE HERE
One in five children between 10 and 17 years of age have reported receiving an unwanted sexual solicitation while online, a new study finds. The solicitation mostly occurred in chat rooms and through e-mail. But the kids are generally all right, the study says. The researchers found teenagers are savvy when it comes to Internet use and while the overtures disturbed them, none of the children in the study encountered any violence. READ MORE HERE
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- Over 16,000 Abductions
- :: Over 100 Murders
- :: Thousands of Rapes
- Millions of Sexual Predators and Perverts
- Over 90% are online just watching and waiting for the “right moment”…
- Approximately 93 percent of all Americans between 12 and 17 years old are internet users (as of 2007)
- One in five U.S. teenagers who regularly log on to the Internet says they have received an unwanted sexual solicitation via the Web. Solicitations were defined as requests to engage in sexual activities or sexual talk, or to give out personal sexual information. (only 25% of those told a parent)
- About 30% of the victims of Internet sexual exploitation are boys.
- Internet sexual predators tend to fall between the ages of 18 and 55, although some are older or younger. Their targets tend to be between the ages of 11 and 15
- In 100% of the cases, teens that are the victims of sexual predators have gone willingly to meet with them.
- There are over 644,865 Registered Sex Offenders in the United States (2008).
- Teens are willing to meet with strangers: 16 percent of teens considered meeting someone they’ve only talked to online and 8 percent have actually met someone they only knew online.
- 75% of children are willing to share personal information online about themselves and their family in exchange for goods and services.
– Use the Cyber Tip Line or call 1-800-THELOST
– Contact the Crime Against Children
Coordinator at your Local FBI Field Office
– File a complaint with IC3
Protect Your Children
– Parent’s Guide to Internet Safety
– National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
– National Sex Offender Registry
– Keep Safe on Social Networking Sites
– FBI Safe Online Surfing Internet Challenge
– Child ID Kits | Child ID App
Statistics — Characteristics of a Predator
1 in 7 Youth: The Statistics about Online Sexual Solicitations
Internet Statistics about Teens
Predator Statistics – Internet Safety 101
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.
Educate Yourself -- Learn the Facts
It May Just Save a Child's Life!!