Predator Facts

"In New Jersey, Majalie Cajuste is grieving the murder of her daughter Judy. The 14-year-old reportedly told friends she met a man in his 20s through MySpace.com."

"Across the country, in Northern California, friends are mourning 15-year-old Kayla Reed. She was active on MySpace until the day she disappeared."

 These are a couple of stories parents, friends or guardians would hate to hear happen to their close ones. But just the fact of not knowing who snatched a child up or why is just alarming because where would you start? Who can you accuse? Where can you look?
 Predators can be dressed up as anyone in today's society. There could be just an everyday man who has a full time job with a family and kids turning out to be a predator. Or the predator might just be a typical bum who has no life and is messed up in the head a little and seeks to take control of younger children or teenagers. Social networking predators could be all around us and you may not even know this at all. The one thing we do know is the facts and past rends of these predators. TimesDaily.com states these facts about social networking predators:

"94-96 percent of Internet child sexual predators are male and generally range in age from 13 to 65."

"89 percent of all sexual solicitations are made in either chat rooms or other social networking systems."

"24 percent students say they have visited inappropriate places online."

"More than 29 percent of students say they have given out personal information over the Internet."

"28 percent of students say they have seen something on the Internet that they would consider dangerous."

"One out of 7 children, ages 10-17, will experience unwanted sexual solicitation online."

"Approximately 12.5 percent of male offenders are married; 1.5 percent are divorced and 89 percent are single."

"40 percent of online sexual solicitations of youth begin with an instant message."

"About one-third of youths admit to regularly communicating online with people they do not know in person."

Throughout these facts they simply show how the predators choose who they want to "prey" on and how kids usually give them the ability to. When kids give out their own personal information, home address, phone numbers, house location, etc. It makes the predators jobs way easier because they have everything they need and more make their very own guest appearance when the child parents aren't home. This is why it's on the parents and children shoulders to monitor who they talk to and who they give information to. You just might be talking to anyone.

Hot Indie News.  3,500 NY Sex Offenders Taken Off Social Networking Sites.  1 Dec. 2009.   <http://www.hotindienews.com/2009/12/01/1015485>.

Kreiser, John.  Myspace: Your Kids' Danger.  6 Feb. 2006.   http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/06/eveningnews/main1286130.shtml.

Smith, Tom.  Hidden Predators.  26 Apr. 2008 at 11:41 p.m.  27 Apr. 2008 at 3:30 a.m.  http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20080427/news/804270353?title=hidden-predators.