I started on an engagement on creating a platform for child safety on the internet. as a prt of the research,i did collect a few stats , that i wish to share. i would delve into the matter more at a later point of time.
Articles about online dangers frequently cite statistics from a 2005
University of New Hampshire study that 13% of youth were sexually solicited by
online predators. (This statistic is sometimes referenced as coming from
the National Center on Missing and Exploited Children, which funded and
published the study).
As the authors of the research upon which these numbers are based, we
believe these statistics often have been misunderstood. The following
points are important caveats that those using or quoting this statistic need to
understand in order to avoid further confusion.
1) These solicitations did not
necessarily come from “online predators”. They were all unwanted online requests to youth to talk
about sex, answer personal questions about sex or do something sexual. But
many could have been from other youth. In most cases, youth did not
actually know the ages of solicitors. When they believed they knew, they
said about half were other youth.
2) These solicitations were not necessarily devious
or intended to lure. Most were limited to brief online
comments or questions in chatrooms or instant messages. Many were simply rude,
vulgar comments like, “What’s your bra size?”.
3) Most recipients did not view the
solicitations as serious or threatening. Two-thirds were not frightened or
upset by what happened.
4) Almost all youth handled unwanted
solicitations easily and effectively. Most reacted by
blocking or ignoring solicitors, leaving sites, or telling solicitors to stop.
5) Extremely few youth (only 2) were
actually sexually victimized by someone they met online. This number was too small to be the basis of a reliable estimate
of how many youth in the population get sexually victimized from online
meetings.
Nonetheless, we were able to make estimates in the study of some of the
more serious types of sexual solicitations. We prefer citing the
statistics about these as more representative of threatening or dangerous
situations that youth encounter online.
- 1 in
25 youth (about 4%) got "aggressive" sexual solicitations that
included attempts to contact the youth offline. These are the episodes
most likely to result in actual victimizations. (About one-quarter of
these aggressive solicitations came from people the youth knew in person,
mostly other youth.)
- 1 in
25 youth (about 4%) were solicited to take sexual pictures of themselves.
In many jurisdictions, these constitute criminal requests to produce child
pornography.
- 1 in
25 youth (about 4%) said they were upset or distressed as a result of an
online solicitation. Whether or not the solicitors were online predators,
these are the youth most immediately harmed by the solicitations
themselves.
Reports and papers about this study, information about other research we
have done, and contact information for the authors are available at our websitewww.unh.edu/ccrc. Please
feel free to contact us if you have questions about any of our research.
Research funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, OJJDP,
and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Program
support provided by the Verizon Foundation.
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One in five U.S. teenagers who regularly log on to the Internet say they have received an unwanted sexual solicitation via the
Web. Solicitations were defined as requests to engage in sexual
activities or sexual talk, or to give personal sexual information.
- Crimes Against Children Research Center
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25% of children have been exposed to unwanted pornographic material online.
- Crimes Against Children Research Center
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Only 1/3 of households with Internet access are actively protecting their children with filtering
or blocking software.
- Center for Missing and Exploited Children
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75% of children are willing to share
personal information online about themselves and their
family in exchange for goods and services.
- eMarketer
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Only approximately 25% of children who encountered a sexual approach or solicitation told a parent or adult.
- Crimes Against Children Research Center
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One in 33 youth received an aggressive
sexual solicitation in the past year. This means a predator asked a young person to meet somewhere, called a
young person on the phone, and/or sent the young person correspondence, money,
or gifts through the U.S. Postal Service.
- Your Internet Safety Survey
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77% of the targets for online predators were age 14 or older. Another 22% were users ages 10 to 13.
- Crimes Against Children Research Center
Source: http://www.sentrypc.com/home/statistics.htm
Other Statistics , if we need to
know
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Only 18% of youth use chat rooms,
however, the majority of Internet-initiated sex crimes against children are
initiated in chat rooms. (Journal of Adolescent Health 47, 2010)
·
As of December 2012, NCMEC's child
victim identification program has reviewed and analyzed more than 80 million
child pornography images since it was created in 2002.(National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 2012)
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In 82% of online sex crimes against
minors, the offender used the victim's social networking site to gain
information about the victim's likes and dislikes. (Journal
of Adolescent Heatlh 47, 2010)
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65% of online sex offendors used the
victim's social networking site to gain home and school information about the
victim (Journal of Adolescent Heatlh 47, 2010)
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Only 1 in 3 people will report secual
crimes to a trusted adult (International Centre for Missing &
Exploited Children)
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At least 1.8 million children are used
in commercial sex, many sold into sexual slavert by poor families and others
abducted and trafficked into brothels (International Centre for Missing
and Exploited Children)
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The UN reports that 79% of human
trafficking is sexual exploitation (International
Centre for Missing & Exploited Children, 2009)
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Dr. Michael Seto estimated that 3% of
the male population is aroused by pedophilic stimuli (International
Centre for Missing & Exploited Children)
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At least 200 million girls and 100
million boys will be sexually victimized before they reach adulthood(International
Centre for Missing & Exploited Children)
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At least 8 million children go missing
each year(International
Centre for Missing & Exploited Children)
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26% of online sex offendors used the
victim's social networking site to gain information about the victim's
whereabouts at a specific time. (Journal of Adolescent Health 47, 2010)
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There are over 747,408 registered sex
offenders in the United States, and over 100,000 are lost in the system(National
Center for Missing & Exploited Children, 2012)
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The "4 every girl campaign"
found that underage female characters on primetime television are more likely
to be presented in sexual scenes than adult women (Parent's Television Council,
2013)
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Pornography and stripping were two
forms of exploitation most likely to be written into scripts as punchy lines(Parent's Television Council, 2013)
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One in seven kids received a sexual
solicitation online.[4]
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Over half (56%) of kids sexually
solicited online were asked to send a picture; 27% of the pictures were
sexually-oriented in nature.[5]
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44% of sexual solicitors were
under the age of 18.[6]
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Four percent of all youth Internet users
received aggressive sexual solicitations, which threatened to spill over into
“real life”. These solicitors asked to meet the youth in person, called
them on the telephone or sent offline mail, money or gifts. Also, four
percent of youth had distressing sexual solicitations that left them feeling
upset of extremely afraid.[7]
·
Of aggressive sexual solicitations of
youth (when the solicitor attempted to establish an offline contact via
in-person meeting or phone call), 73% of youth met the solicitor online.[8]
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Sexual solicitations of youth occur:[9]
o
Chatrooms (37%)
o
Instant Messaging (40%)
o
Other, like gaming devices (21%)
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The more risky behaviors kids
engage in online, the more likely they will receive an online sexual
solicitation. These risky behaviors include[10]:
o
Posting personal information (50%)
o
Interacting with online strangers (45%)
o
Placing strangers on buddy lists (35%)
o
Sending personal information to strangers (26%)
o
Visiting X-rated sites (13%)
o
Talking about sex with strangers (5%)
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80% of online offenders against youth
were eventually explicit with youth about their intentions, and only 5%
concealed the fact that they were adults from their victims.[11
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The majority of victims of
Internet-initiated sex crimes were between 13 to 15 years old; 75% were girls
and 25% were boys.[12]
·
14 percent of students in 10th-12th
grade have accepted an invitation to meet an online stranger in-person and 14
percent of students, who are usually the same individuals, have invited an
online stranger to meet them in-person.[13]
·
14 percent 7th-9th grade students
reported that they had communicated with someone online about sexual things; 11
percent of students reported that they had been asked to talk about sexual
things online; 8 percent have been exposed to nude pictures and 7 percent were
also asked for nude pictures of themselves online. [14]
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59 percent of 7th-9th grade victims
said their perpetrators were a friend they know in-person; 36 percent said it
was someone else they know; 21 percent said the cyber offender was a classmate;
19 percent indicated the abuser was an online friend; and 16 percent said it
was an online stranger.[15]
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Nine percent of children in 7th-9th
grade have accepted an online invitation to meet someone in-person and 10
percent have asked someone online to meet them in-person.[16]
·
13 percent of 2nd-3rd grade students
report that they used the Internet to talk to people they do not know, 11
percent report having been asked to describe private things about their body
and 10 percent have been exposed to private things about someone else's body. [17]
Source:
http://www.internetsafety101.org/Predatorstatistics.htm