Preventing child sexual abuse during a pandemic

Many people are working from home, including kids doing their schoolwork as we continue to shelter in place.

HOME━ INCLUDING KIDS DOINGTHEIR SCHOOLWORK AS WECONTINUE TO SHELTER IN PLACE.AND AS PART OF OUR REBOUNDMARYLAND SERIES━ WMA━2NEWS' MARK ROPER EXPLAINS HOWTHE MORE TIME KIDS SPENDONLINE DURING THE PANDEMICCOULD POSSIBLY EXPOSE THEM TOCHILD PREDATORS AND POTENTIALABUSE.úHOME SHOULD BE A SAFE PLACEFOR KIDS BUT THE SEXUAL ABUSEOF CHILDREN COULD BE HAPPENINGUNBEKNOWNST TO PARENTS RIGUNDER THEIR OWN ROOF.

I'm amom, there's other moms outthere, we're literally handingour kid their gaming device,or their tablet and beinglike, I need to do a workmeeting, right, and there aredangers and risks from thatonline interaction, and wejust want to make sure thatparents are taking a minute tothink about that AND BESIDESBEING A MOM━ VANESSA MILIOIS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OFNO MORE STOLEN CHILDHOODS━ ABALTIMOR━BASED NO━PROFITORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO THEPREVENTION OF CHILD SEXUALABUSE.

There's also a sexualabuse that occurs where if Ias an adult am manipulating achild to giving me images ofthemselves and them I'm usingthose images either for my owngratification or to sell tosomeone else AND WITH SCHOOLSCLOSED DURING THE PANDEMIC━CLASSES HAVE MOVED ONLINE━CAUSING KIDS TO SPEND MORETIME ON THEIR ELECTRONICDEVICES THAN EVER BEFORE.

Iwouldn't take my pr━ schoolerto the playground and walkaway to the car and and go dosomething else, right, sowe're saying you don't' handyour preschooler the laptopand say I'll be back in anhour MILIO BELIEVES PREVENTIONBEGINS WITH KEEPING YOUR KIDSACTIVITIES ONLINE BOTOBSERVABLE AND INTERRUPTABLE.if you're child is gaming, youwant to know, who they'retalking to in that video game,you want to know what appsthey've downloaded onto theirphone, you want to know whothey're engaging with whetherit's tik tok or snapchat, orwhatever the app of the momeis KIDS SPEND SO MUCH OF THEIRFREE TIME SHARING THEIRPERSONAL VIDEOS AND PHOTOS TOSOCIAL MEDIA━ HOWEVER━PARENTS MIGHT WANT TO REMINDTHEM THERE ARE SOME THINGSWHICH SHOULD BE KEPT PRIVATE.We don't want you telling thatperson that you think is yourfriend in the online worldthat your in, our address,your date of birth, thosetypes of engagement where anonline predator could bepretending to be a peer ofyour child, to gain access tthat information SO WHAT ELSECAN YOU DO TO KEEP KIDS SAFEONLINE?━ SET PARENTALCONTROLS ON YOUR KIDS'ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND APPS ASWELL AS YOUR HOME W━FINETWORK TO BLOCK YOUR KIDSEYES FROM INAPPROPRIATWEBSITES━ AND TALK TO YOURKIDS ABOUT THE DANGERS OFSEXTING━ WHAT PHOTOS ARETHEY TAKING AND WHO ARE THEYSHARING THEM WITH?━ MOBILEPHONES AND DEVICES SHOULD BEUSED IN A COMMON SPACE WITHINTHE HOME.

AND AS THE PANDEMICHAS FAMILIES SPENDING MORE ANDMORE TIME AT HOME AND ONLINE━ THESE ARE JUST A FEWREMINDERS HOW PARENTS CAN NOTONLY PROTECT THEIR KIDSDIGITALLY BUT EMOTIONALLY.because that abuse that canoccur, even if they weren'tphysically violated, can stillbe damaging and have lifelongimpacts MARK ROPER WMA━2NEWS.FOR MORE STORIES TO HELP YOGET THROUGH THESE TOUGHTIMES..HEAD TO OUR WEBSITEWMA━2NEW━DO━ COM SLASH