Catching potential Internet sex predators

READING THIS COULD SAVE YOUR CHILD!
Catching potential Internet sex predators
By Chris Hansen
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 9:17 p.m. ET Nov. 4, 2005
In any home where there are kids with computers,
there are parents with concerns. Teenagers can spend
hours chatting online, but who are they chatting with?
On the other end of that instant message could be a
complete stranger — or a sexual predator.
It's a dangerous side of the Internet, one that's growing
and many children are at risk. So we went undercover,
filling a house with hidden cameras.
Soon, a long line of visitors came knocking, expecting
to find a young teenager they'd been chatting with
on the Internet, home alone.
Instead, they found Dateline.
We want to warn you some of what you'll read is explicit.
But parents need to know what their kids can confront
when they sit down at the computer.

"Law enforcement officials estimate that 50,000
predators are online at any given moment.
And the number of reports of children being
solicited for sex is growing says Michele Collins
of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children."

LINK TO FULL STORY BELOW:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9927253/