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The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is releasing a brand-new analysis of children who were lured out of their homes and were reported missing to NCMEC. The report analyzed 476 cases reported missing to NCMEC between 2020 and 2023.
Online enticement is a broad category including online grooming, sextortion and sending, receiving or sharing sexually explicit images and videos. The cases addressed within this analysis contained serious scenarios where the offender ultimately met up with the child to commit a sexual offense or abduction, leading them to become a missing child.
By reviewing these cases and learning more about these children’s experiences, the National Center hopes to better inform parents, caregivers, law enforcement, child welfare professionals and others who work to prevent this crime and bring missing children home safely.
Staca Shehan, vice president of NCMEC’s Analytical Services Division, the team who worked on the analysis, says that this information is important because it uncovered additional data and trends related to children and youth who went missing after being enticed online and expands upon anything NCMEC has released previously. This includes information on the child being targeted by adults online before going missing and age differences between the offender and the child.
Within the analysis, NCMEC found that 41% of offenders in these cases were more than 10 years older than the child. The largest age difference was 48 years.
“These age differences demonstrated that although the rates of missing children enticed online are low when compared to the number of children online, when they do occur much older adults are targeting kids and using their vulnerabilities against them,” Shehan said.
BALTIMORE — More than 68% of youth reported exposure to online pornography, according to the National Institute of Health.
Experts say exposure to this kind of material at an early age can cause psychological and even physical harm. However, Maryland lawmakers have proposed a solution to protect children from this harmful content.
The Maryland Online Child Protection Act would mandate safety settings on phones, tablets, and game devices marketed to minors, that would automatically block obscene content.
“A lot of people think that it just stops there, but it doesn’t,” said De’ Asia Wiggins, a survivor of online trafficking.
For De’Asia Wiggins – who lost her mother when she was just 11 – being exposed to pornography while she was in foster care, led to unwanted real-life encounters.
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When it comes to having phones in the bedroom, it seems every parent has a different opinion. Some parents are hands-off about it, while others have their bedtime routine written in stone. We know it can be hard to determine what’s best for your child when there are so many voices saying different things. That’s why we put together the research about what happens when kids have their phones in the bedroom — and why it’s probably better to avoid it.
An Alabama mother is urging health officials to ban a toxic supplement sold in gas stations, after her 19 year-old son died after taking it to ease his migraine.
Johnathon Morrison, from Trafford, Alabama, fatally choked on his own vomit in February 2019 after taking pills containing tianeptine – otherwise known as ‘gas station heroin’.
The Food and Drug Administration has previously warned about the grave harms of the substance, which is most commonly found in an energy-boosting’ product called Neptune‘s Fix.
