| It seems more and more parents are becoming | | | | and swinging in the wind. Likewise, a pedophile will not |
| concerned about the dangeous unknown we call the | | | | take the most difficult, complex route to a victim. |
| World Wide Web. There has been recent concern | | | | The only real justification to such a claim, is that |
| about posting normal, family related pictures. Is | | | | pedophiles are picture collecters. Sometimes they do |
| posting a family picture for others to see really | | | | peruse through photo sites for pictures of children. |
| putting your child at danger? | | | | However, the reality is this: The most common |
| Our organization works online with pedophiles every | | | | internet pictures of random kids used by pedophiles |
| day. Real ones. Our abuse prevention programs are | | | | are taken with a telescopic lens, and without you |
| based on the information we gathered by infiltrating | | | | even knowing about it. Beach pictures, in the mall, |
| internet circles of them to learn how they act. Such | | | | walking down the street. The family pictures you |
| first hand research gives us a unique perspective to | | | | take and distribute to relatives without the help of |
| answer this question that nobody else can. | | | | the internet are much more likely to end up in the |
| First you must ask yourself.....how likely is this? In | | | | hands of a pedophile, and still may end up online |
| reality, the fear that a pedophile is somehow going to | | | | anyway. While it is a discomforting thought for |
| see your child's picture, then become obsessed, go | | | | parents to think that pictures of their child may ever |
| through the nearly impossible feat to identify your | | | | be viewed by a pedophile,short of locking your child |
| child in the first place, then develop an elaborate plan | | | | in the basement, it is a reality of the age. Picture |
| to somehow abduct your child, is about as likely as | | | | sharing over the web is a convenience. It is |
| your child being hit with a small asteroid, twice in the | | | | something loved by family and friends. When we |
| same day. | | | | breed a society where inocent pictures are too |
| Pedophiles are opportunists. While they may have | | | | dangerous to be shared, then all we've done is added |
| preferences as to the way a child looks, the children | | | | another atrocity. |
| they molest are based on the ones they have an | | | | Society would be much better off, if we could stop |
| opportunity to be around. And yes, nearly every | | | | wasting time on these misguided fears, and instead |
| pedophile is around children every day. We catch less | | | | apply the same effort to abuse prevention. Lost in all |
| than one percent of them, and they exist in a | | | | this is the fact that nearly every incident of sexual |
| population well into the millions, likely into the tens of | | | | abuse is preventable, with simple steps that parents |
| millions in the United States alone. Our organization | | | | can take. The media has done a great disservice to |
| has recently come up with mathematical equations | | | | the public, by focusing on the problem of sexual |
| based on the most widely accepted numbers, | | | | abuse from the extreme fraction of a percent, and |
| indicating that around one in every 20-30 adults has | | | | reinforcing traditional views of pedophiles which are |
| active pedophile tendencies. | | | | far from accurate. If parents don't understand the |
| This fear of a pedophile finding your child's picture | | | | way they work and act, you can't protect your |
| online, and then stalking your child for evil purposes, is | | | | children. The ploys pedophiles use can be stopped, if |
| nothing more than an urban legend. It has never | | | | parents simply take the time to address the things |
| happened, nor is it likely to in the future. It is simply | | | | that make their childrren vulnerable to begin with. |
| not how they work. They do not need to go | | | | With simple steps that nearly every parent can take, |
| through elaborate heists to get children. Most are | | | | just about every molester can be kept at bay. |
| around kids every day. Even the ones who aren't and | | | | We understand that it can be hard to find ways to |
| might consider an abduction, are going to search for | | | | address this topic with your kids, which is why we |
| the easiest victim. They will pick one out based on | | | | offer safety programs that teach kids how to |
| their geographic location, not go through great | | | | defeat abuse simply by reading them a children's |
| lengths to try and find and stalk a child's picture they | | | | book. Each book addresses a different concept in |
| saw on the internet. | | | | abuse prevention, and over the series your children |
| While the fear parents have about this may be real, | | | | will learn the skills they need to stop just about any |
| it is unfounded. A thief is not going to spend days | | | | attack. Instead of creating new things to fear as |
| fumbling on a solid steel lock with a thousand | | | | parents, let's go on the attack to ensure that our |
| tumblers, when the door 3 feet away is already open | | | | kids are protected. |