The Child Protection eNewsletter
 As registered sex offender Joseph Edward Duncan, III “stands silent” at his arraignment hearing for the abduction of Shasta Groene, her nine year old brother Dylan and the murder of Dylan and the rest of Shasta’s family, http://www.kvpress.com and prosecutors announce their intention to seek the death penalty, http://www.localnews8.com states continue to focus on sex offenders and registries. Maryland Governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. will ask the legislature in January to adopt stricter laws regulating sex offenders, including lifetime electronic monitoring of the most violent sexual predators. http://www.washtimes.com Texas and Florida already have such laws, vol3_iss30 and legislation is currently pending in Pennsylvania,  New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. vol3_iss46 Ehrlich also announced that all state owned cell phones will receive Amber alerts via text messaging. For more information on cellular Amber alerts see vol3_iss33. To receive them on your cell phone visit https://www.wirelessamberalerts.org
With all the attention that sex offenders in your neighborhood are getting it is important to remember that registered sex offenders can lure children hundreds of miles away via the internet, and that children are most at risk from sexual assault by a teenage boy in the neighborhood. A Milwaukee boy was recovered last week in Arizona from the home a registered sex offender. http://www.wkbt.com The boy was lured via the internet, despite blocking software his mother had properly installed on his computer. http://www.jsonline.com You children will run into a sexual predator on internet. Your child needs to be prepared for it. Start by moving your computer out of the bedroom and into the family room or kitchen. Recognize that while blocking software is not completely useless, you child can and will learn to get around it. For more internet safety tips, visit Donna Rice Hughes’ http://www.protectkids.com
The most common type of child sexual abuser your children might face is an older boy. The thirteen-year-old boy charged with raping six- and seven-year-old girls. http://www.thewgalchannel.com is far more common than a child being abducted by a sex offender. To illustrate the point, a Google search of “+thirteen +charged +rape” produced 917,000 hits.
Nationally, 23.2% of ALL reported sexual assaults are committed by children. http://www.newswise.com Because child on child crime is the least likely crime to be reported to law enforcement, it estimated that 40% of all sexual assaults (not just assaults against children) are committed by children under the age of 18. In fact, the DOJ age profile of offenders indicates that the greatest numbers of juvenile sex offenses are committed at age 14. For more information on how to protect your child from this much more common problem, visit our online Child Protection Guide at http://www.childprotectionprogram.org/guide/6.php, http://www.childprotectionprogram.org/guide/7.php and http://www.childprotectionprogram.org/guide/8.php. Should you discover that your child has become a victim of sexual assault, contact your police immediately and visit http://www.childprotectionprogram.org/portal/index.php.
Reports of child pornography to http://www.cybertipline.com are up 400% in the last four years. http://www.csmonitor.com Law-enforcement officials are particularly disturbed by the increased number of commercial sites that offer photos of exploited children in return for a credit-card number. Those fighting child porn say it has become a global multibillion-dollar industry. vol3_iss48
MSNBC has a report on the increasingly racy reading material marketed to young teenage girls. http://www.msnbc.msn.com In “Claiming Georgia Tate,” a father has sex with his daughter. In “Rainbow Party,” teens make plans for an oral sex party. And in “Teach Me,” out next week and seemingly ripped from the day’s headlines, there’s a student-teacher affair. The racy reads are publishing’s fastest-growing segment and young girls are the biggest consumers.
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