"Since the early days of the internet, with AOL chatrooms and online bulletin boards, there have been unhealthy, dangerous, and predatory individuals who used these electronic environments to act inappropriately towards minors. Children and adolescents have received disturbing sexual comments and solicitations from online creeps. Sometimes, these individuals would attempt to meet up with the children, even sometimes traveling across the country to meet the child in person."
"Law enforcement is involved as well, at all levels, from the FBI to state and local law enforcement, as well as internationally, through Interpol task forces. One strategy used by various law enforcement groups is to go online and create fake personas of children, operated by law enforcement officers. If an online predator approaches the pseudo-child, solicits them, sends inappropriate sexual images or comments, or attempts to meet the child, they meet the law enforcement officers instead."
Unhealthy and predatory individuals used early internet chatrooms and bulletin boards to target children and adolescents with disturbing sexual comments, solicitations, and sometimes in-person meeting attempts, including long-distance travel. Modern online platforms ban such behavior, encourage reporting, and terminate offending accounts. Law enforcement at local, state, federal, and international levels create online decoy child personas to identify and arrest adults who solicit or attempt sexual contact with minors. Adults arrested in these operations tend to have fewer prior arrests, less deviant adult sexual behavior, and higher employment rates, yet 13% were engaged in active abuse and 41% possessed child sexual abuse material; all arrested were male.
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