If you were at our October seminar, you may recall me talking about FBI emails. If you didn’t attend my training, the gist is that the FBI provides emails covering a variety of law enforcement arenas. You can stay informed by signing up for these emails. (Here’s the site to sign up: https://www.fbi.gov/email-updates.)
One of the subjects covered by the FBI is child pornography and sexual misconduct with a minor. The Justice Department’s name for this initiative is “Project Safe Childhood.” Led by the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. 1
Here are just a few of the most recent FBI email articles involving crimes covered by this project:
- Second area man sent to prison for child pornography charges
- Brownsville Man Sentenced on Child Pornography Charge
- Alabama Man Pleads Guilty to Enticing a Minor for Sex
- South Korean National And Hundreds Of Others Charged Worldwide In The Takedown Of The Largest Darknet Child Pornography Website, Which Was Funded By Bitcoin
It’s worth noting that in the case of the Alabama man who plead guilty, he enticed a 16-year-old girl through a game on her smartphone. Her father only discovered what was going on when he came across email exchanges between his daughter and the 46-year-old man.
Many of our readers are parents and grandparents and we need to be concerned about how some on the Net are willing to take advantage of our kids. The Internet has wonderful things to offer but, like everything in life, there are those who would misuse an otherwise positive resource. Keep alert as to what your children and grandchildren are doing online. If necessary, take steps to limit what they can do and see. (We’ll talk more about this in a future post.)
1 Source: https://www.justice.gov/psc