CO 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Online Predator
Document Summary
Details the new way that predators have discovered to find their victims. Online it is easy to pretend to be someone else, and it can be easy, especially for adolescents, to be fooled into trusting someone they met online. It introduces katherine massicotte, a detective in the new milford police department"s. Investigative services bureau, whose job is to go online, portraying herself as a teenage girl, and search for online predators. The author goes on to exemplify this topic through the story of a young girl who was lured and kidnapped by someone she met online, masquerading as a teenage boy. The author finishes the article by urging parents to monitor their children online at all times, while providing ways that they can do this. With social media becoming as popular as it has, it is possible for all of us to at some point fall victim to this type of deceit.
