Online Child Grooming…

By Jess, Polly and Jil.

What is child grooming?

• Child grooming is the action of deliberately befriending and creating an emotional connection with a child, in order to persuade the child into sexual activity or exploitation.

Online…• With the development of WEB 2.0 the society has a

chance to communicate with others worldwide.• Sex offenders have taken advantage of this by using

popular social networking websites such as Facebook, Myspace, AOL, Bebo and Msn.

• Websites such as these are used by a young audience, especially girls aged 11-16

• Over 300 complaints were reported in 2009 about protecting young children on Facebook

The Facts…• 25% of children and young people say that they have

met up with someone that they have spoken to online. • 80% of children access of the internet alone. While over

22% have access to the internet in their bedrooms. • In the UK last year, 29,973 people were on the sex

offenders register

Examples…• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0qm

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Solutions

• Parental blocking systems on the internet. Parents are able to filter websites their children cannot access

• Software programs such as ‘NetNanny’ help automatically scan inappropriate websites