My India journey started with Mahakumbh, followed by a conference on geopolitics. The world is changing, and we need to focus on the motivations behind these changes.
The elite are working hard to create an army of Non-Player Characters (NPCs) - like those in video games. Exercise of agency can move us from beings cogs to game changers. And that is at the root of our civilization as we know it.
USAID is being dismantled. Contrary to what the moral busybodies declare, the aid infrastructure of the West has actively subverted other societies. Its only when it turned inwards with the same zeal that it is now being dismantled - brick by brick.
How much time does it take for an 11 year old girl to be approached by online predators once that kid goes online? Any guesses?
An experiment that showed scary results
A 37-year old mom went undercover as an 11-year old girl to expose the dangers facing kids on social media platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and Kik. The team timed the responses and it was under a minute for the first like on the profile. And in less than two minutes, an older man started sexting-ing with her!
And, within a few days, when she posed as a 15 years old, she was asked to meet this older man who wanted to take her to a hotel room and wanted her because she was a virgin!
Online Predators Statistics
Here are some online sexual predators statistics that can scare the mind of anyone from here and here.
One in five U.S. teenagers who regularly log on to the Internet says 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 out personal sexual information. (only 25% of those told a parent)
About 30% of the victims of Internet sexual exploitation are boys.
Internet sexual predators tend to fall between the ages of 18 and 55, although some are older or younger. Their targets tend to be between the ages of 11 and 15
Left unsupervised, young children can be exposed to online predators, grooming, and psychological abuse within minutes.
Some social media apps parents should be monitoring. (Source: Somerset, New Jersey Prosecutor’s Office)
Prosecutors in New Jersey did a sting operation called ‘Operation Open Door’, where 19 online sexual predators were caught. They were trying to lure underage boys and girls into sexual activities. The predators were using several applications to do that. Some are listed above.
The most dangerous apps were the ones which used the phones location – the GPS settings – so they could be traced.
How online predators do their work?
Most, 98% actually, of the offenders do not know the victims in real life.
They use anonymity and social media’s reach to intrude into the kids’ lives. An in-depth report by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is given here, which gives a detailed view of this world.
So what do the predators want? Well, per that report, they are looking for these takeaways.
To obtain explicit photos of children (or to share photos of their own)
To meet in person and engage in sexual activity
To engage in sexual conversation and/or online role-play
Earn Child’s trust – using compliments, shared interests, and likes and commenting
Understanding landscape – the predator tries to understand how engaged the guardians and if there is no supervision, then they go ahead more boldly.
Normalize sexuality – they send unsolicited explicit images of themselves and sometimes even of other kids.
Throw the bait – they start to go for the ‘jugular’ once they have hooked the kid. They use explicit photos, attempts to meet in person, engaging in role-play, or blackmailing the victim for financial gain.
Saving the kids from online predators
Just simple steps as supervision and checking the access of a kid’s phone apps and being aware of what is going on in the world of predators can help one save many kids. At some age, kids need to be apprised of the dangers out there so they can decipher things when they encounter them when things are low for them.
No one can be with the kids all the time. There are certain times when one can be checking but it cannot be all the time. For those times the kids need to know the danger. These are times when the kids will have to grow up faster. The danger is just too overwhelming.
