Online predators often start with porn
PROVO — Online predators generally start out "just" looking at porn but escalate to preying on the most innocent and most vulnerable, said a BYU 2009 Campus Education speaker to a largely Mormon audience.
"This is one of those topics. We all wish we didn't have to talk about this," Charles D. Knutson said in his "Who's watching our children online?" class Wednesday. "But the risk is huge and our children are so vulnerable. When it happens it's devastating."
Knutson said parents must recognize that Internet predators are actively seeking victims, are very patient and looking for easy targets.
They commit "one of the most corrosive crimes against the most innocent," he said. "What we're talking about is a set of secret combinations."
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