Child Predators

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday signed legislation aimed at addressing mounting concerns over minors and the addictive influence social media has on them.

The FBI is warning families about the rise of online “sextortion,” as criminal rings are beginning to use AI to blackmail teenage victims.

Recent reports have emerged indicating that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta implementation of encrypted messaging on Facebook and Instagram facilitated predatory behavior against children. A former executive explains, “It was a hundred times worse than any of us expected. There were millions of pedophiles targeting tens of millions of children.”

Facebook and Instagram are steering children toward explicit content — even in cases when no interest is expressed — and allowing child predators to find and contact minors, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez said in a announcement this week revealing a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta.

A counselor who says she works with sex offenders claimed pedophiles are the “most vilified population” and advocated for destigmatization.

Several arrests took place when suspects thought they were meeting teenagers for sex but were actually communicating with undercover detectives in central Florida.

Swedish child sex abusers have been able to keep indecent images of children as long as they are stored on a cloud service, experts say.

A 50-year-old imam is one of 65 men placed in custody after a large-scale operation in multiple cities aimed at tackling child pornography. 

A London-based group of over 100 parents have begun campaigning to have social media sites like Instagram and Twitter remove the accounts of paedophiles who are reportedly using cheese and pizza emojis as code to share images.

Charlene Doak-Gebauer, author and expert on digital safety for children and families, said that during the coronavirus outbreak, children who are sequestered inside homes and using devices more than usual are at higher risk for exposure to pornography and online predators.

More than 100 people were arrested in a central Ohio child sex sting operation — including a doctor and a youth director at a church, police said.

What we have here is a major news organization openly lobbying Facebook and other social media groups to blacklist POPSquad and other groups like it.

Two Disney workers and one HIV positive man were among 13 arrested for in an online child predator sex ring in Florida, authorities announced Tuesday.

A new report this week claims that according to the police, child predators are using the popular online multiplayer game Fortnite to lure in their victims.

22-year-old Joel Davis of the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict faces monstrous charges of child sexual abuse.

A man allegedly flew from New Zealand to meet a 14-year-old girl in Goochland County, Virginia, brought pepper spray to her home and was shot by her mother.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Peter Thiel’s data analysis company Palantir reportedly used Facebook to track down an alleged child predator.

Border Patrol agents helped Canadian authorities track down a fugitive, alleged sexual predator that had fled north to avoid prosecution.

Agents of the U.S. Border Patrol continue to discover child predators and other dangerous criminals crossing the border. This week, in the Rio Grande Valley Sector alone, three convicted child predators, an alleged rapist, and two gang members were arrested. Another man was arrested with nearly $2 million worth of methamphetamine.

The Office of the Texas Attorney General announced the arrest of the 200th online child predator under the AG’s Child Exploitation Unit. The arrests came as part of his crackdown on child predators.

Federal, state and local law enforcement officials kicked off a new joint task force in the Rio Grande Valley aimed at fighting the rising threat against children from sexual predators. Arrests of sex offenders, including previously deported illegal alien sex offenders has been on the increase across this border region.