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Teens and "Sextortion"

Basset Hound in TX Wrote: Sep 03, 2010 10:48 PM

Teens want so desperately for a special friend to help them transition into adulthood. They also long for a positive parent who will be involved in their lives. It's tragic beyond belief that there are so many who will offer them the pretense of such a special friendship...for a price. There's a special place in hell for preditors like that.

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sqrt(cos(180)) Wrote: Sep 04, 2010 12:22 AM

Thank God that such predators are being caught and convicted. Unfortunately, it takes victims or other witnesses to come forward to convict these brutes--and that is not easy on the victims.

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Teens and "Sextortion"

Children today are often so voracious and versed in the latest communications technology that they make their parents feel like Myles Standish and Betsy Ross. Three-fourths of young people between 12 and 17 now own cell phones, reports the Pew Internet and American Life Project. And get this: 87 percent of those who send text messages told researchers that they sleep with or next to their phones. Half of teens send 50 or more text messages a day, and one in three send more than 100, or more than 3,000 texts a month. By contrast, only 30 percent of teenagers...

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