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Internet Crime - Are Your Children at Risk?

By Steven Rodriguez

1 in 5 tweens, children aged 8 to 12, have posted personal information about themselves on the Internet. 1 in 4 pre-teens have been contacted online by a stranger. 1 in 10 tweens have responded and chatted online with someone they didn’t know. Those are some of the disturbing findings of the Tween Internet Safety Survey sponsored by Cox Communications and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. By the time they’re 9, most American children have used the Internet. Not quite half (42%) of 8- to 10-year olds have a personal email account. By the time they’re 11 and 12, 71% have their own email accounts, 50% have their own cell phone, 41% regularly send instant messages, and more than a third have a profile on a social network site like Facebook or MySpace...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on June 03, 2009 (boomark / email).