Dateline: To catch a predator

[Janet]

Originally Posted by RLC12345678

I have watched several of these Dateline episodes and it truly is disgusting! One of the things experts suggest is not allowing children to have computers in their rooms. The computers children use should be out in the open in the family area, such as the living room or den, so parents can keep an eye on them.

Did any of you see the 16 year old boy on Oprah that was running an Internet Porn site of of his bedroom and his mother had no idea!

I didn't see the Oprah one, can't believe, I hardly ever miss Oprah. I am in the room when my son is on the computer. Not that I don't trust him, I don't trust the wackos!!!

[RLC12345678]

Originally Posted by Janet

I didn't see the Oprah one, can't believe, I hardly ever miss Oprah. I am in the room when my son is on the computer. Not that I don't trust him, I don't trust the wackos!!!

Yes, it is the wackos, not the children. This boy that was on Oprah was solicited by men. He had a video camera set up on his computer and he said that one day, a man IMed him and said that he would give him $50 to take off his shirt. Of course the boy didn't see anything wrong with this, so he did it and the man sent $50 to his Paypal account. Then, it just escalted from there. It went from taking his shirt off, to taking ALL his clothes off, to performing sex acts with men and women in front of his computer video camera, then he went so far as to meet these men in person!!!!!!! I think he said that it all started when he was 13 years old and he was performing the sex acts by the time he was 16! It was unbelievable. But, he got out of it.