Keeping Kids Safe on the Internet


As sexual predators increasingly turn to chat rooms, e-mail and Web sites to target children, parents need to watch for the warning signs. Here’s how you can make the Internet a safer place.


By Natalie Walker Whitlock and Marilyn Martinez


Late one night in 2001, a 13-year-old boy opened the door of his San Fernando Valley home believing he was letting in an older teenager he met in an Internet chat room. Instead, the person on the other side of the door was Michael Robert Green, 41, a man who had posed as a teen in the chat room, talking to the young boy and, ultimately, convincing him to explore his sexuality.





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    • The boy allowed Green into his room, where he was sexually molested. The boy’s mother, who found out about the sexual encounter by reading her son’s diary, called police. 


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