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Another huge development in the Child Online Protection sector… As I am sure you have heard, the new reigning Miss America, America’s Most Wanted and New York’s Suffolk County’s computer crimes unit have teamed up to bust online predators.
You can read the AP article here.
Basically, the Suffolk County PD created the profile of a 14-year-old [...]

Todd Krysiak of the Portage Daily Register has written an in-depth 3-part series that examines the use of undercover police to arrest suspected pedophiles who travel to meet the underage children they believe they have met online.
Right up our alley!
You can read Part I, Part II and Part III here… Each one is very-well done.
Using [...]

Stumbled across a pretty good resource for parents online. Plugged In Parent is run by Sharon Miller Cindrich, a columnist and mother of two. She is also the author of the forthcoming book, E-parenting: Keeping Up With Your Tech-Savvy Kids, which I personally can’t wait to read.
The site has some Tech Tips, a good resources [...]

Our condolences to all parents, families and friends of the Virginia Tech victims.
Words cannot express the sorrow we feel for all involved. We mourn your loss and you are in our thoughts…

I was reading a very excellent NY Times article by Alina Tugend this weekend. It’s a pretty standard –but also very good— look at keeping kids safe online.
Unfortunately, we were left out.
But that wasn’t my biggest irk…
One of the interviewees, Amanda Lenhart, a senior research specialist who oversaw the coming report [...]

Thought I’d go out for the weekend on a positive note.
I stumbled across this website called Section 21: Tactical Corps. It’s an activist organization and intelligence network dedicated to confronting Internet activities by child abusers and pedophiles.
On the site they have a bunch of tips to parents, plus they take a deeper look [...]

Item #1: Another sicko is busted for having sex with a kid he met on MySpace.
This jerkface scumbag, Stephen Letavec, is a volunteer firefighter from Elrama PA. He met a 14-year old girl on MySpace and traveled to her home in Oxford CT, THREE times to have sex with her. As a result [...]

So, why do all these pedophiles and online predators think they can have sex with teenagers they meet online…?
Adam Thierer, a senior fellow at the free market technology think tank The Progress and Freedom Foundation, has authored a new paper titled Social Networking and Age Verification: Many Hard Questions; No Easy Solutions.
While the paper [...]

Over the weekend, 28 sicko pervert wackjobs were arrested when they showed up to a house in Orlando Florida, hoping to have sex with (people) whom they believed to be boy and girls, ages 13 and 14.
You can read a story here and watch video here.
Ok… so let’s think about this and how it relates [...]

Hi!
Welcome to the new PC Pandora Blog. You may ask, why does PC Pandora want to have a blog…?
I’ll tell you!
Every day a new story surfaces about a person or group of people caught and arrested, as they try to meet up with and have sex with teenagers whom they met online. Government agencies, [...]