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Internet Luring
- Statistics
Some statistics found by the U.S. Department of Justice:
 | According to a survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice, one in
five children are subject to unwanted sexual solicitations online. Many of these
solicitations occur in Internet chat rooms, where predators may assume a false
identity and work for weeks, months or years to make contact in the real world
with their victim.
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 | Nineteen percent of young Internet users received an unwanted sexual
solicitation in the past year.
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 | Five percent of the surveyed youth received a distressing sexual
solicitation.
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 | Three percent received an aggressive solicitation involving offline
contact or attempts or requests for offline contact.
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 | A great majority (77 percent) of the victims were 14 to 17 years old.
Source: The U.S. Department of Justice
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February 19, 2008
Published in the Welland Tribune
Quote from a Letter to the Editor:
"Never has their been such damning data to call our government, justice
systems and public to action. Internet Sex Crimes Against Children Task Force
experts call it a social epidemic: 44,970 computers nationwide distribute
visuals of criminals raping and sexually abusing kids. Albeit, the software
designed to help officers trace photos to Internet Protocol addresses is only
able to detect about half the offenders each time it sweeps the World Wide Web.
This means the 205,305 abuse images found in Canada is gut wrenchingly higher --
we rank fourth, globally, as distributors. Detectives say the pictures are
"out there for life." ~ Janet Gritter (Ontario)
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