DID YOU KNOW?

Over 16,000 Abductions

Over 100 Murders    

Thousands of Rapes

Over 39,000 Verified Registered Sex Offenders have profiles on MySpace

(Those are just the ones who have registered their real names!)

• One in five U.S. teenagers who regularly log on to the Internet say 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 personal sexual information.
  - Crimes Against Children Research Center
  
  
• 25% of children have been exposed to unwanted pornographic material online.
  - Crimes Against Children Research Center
  
  
• Only 1/3 of households with Internet access are actively protecting their children with filtering or blocking software
  - Center for Missing and Exploited Children
  
  
• 75% of children are willing to share personal information online about themselves and their family in exchange for goods and services.
  - eMarketer
  
  
• Only approximately 25% of children who encountered a sexual approach or solicitation told a parent or adult.
  - Crimes Against Children Research Center
  
• One in 33 youth received an aggressive sexual solicitation in the past year. This means a predator asked a young person to meet somewhere, called a young person on the phone, and/or sent the young person correspondence, money, or gifts through the U.S. Postal Service.
  - Your Internet Safety Survey
  
  
• 77% of the targets for online predators were age 14 or older.  Another 22%
  were users ages 10 to 13.
  - Crimes Against Children Research Center