Monday, 1 February 2016

definition of child grooming

Online Grooming by Pedophiles. Grooming is defined as "actions deliberately undertaken with the aim of befriending and establishing an emotional connection with a child, in order to lower the child's inhibitions in preparation for sexual activity with the child".

stories about grooming online safety

http://www.scotsman.com/news/children-s-internet-safety-a-father-s-story-1-2822663

http://www.dorset.police.uk/default.aspx?page=3644

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/i-groomed-online-abducted-chained-4684151

Over 90% of sexually abused children were abused by someone they knew

http://news.sky.com/story/1581959/how-my-son-became-an-online-grooming-victim

https://www.childline.org.uk/Play/GetInvolved/Pages/Charlotte%E2%80%93my-experience-of-online-grooming.aspx

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/23/breck-bednar-murder-online-grooming-gaming-lorin-lafave

http://www.childnet.com/resources/jennys-story

http://www.itsnotokay.co.uk/what-is-it/real-stories/student-jailed-for-grooming-young-girls-on-the-internet/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9411679/Sexual-grooming-up-by-a-fifth.html

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fake-justin-bieber-robert-hunter-2277377

Robert Hunter, 35, used the star’s identity and other fake teenage boy personas to dazzle hundreds of child victims worldwide.

He encouraged them to strip naked and perform sex acts on webcam – then threatened them with exposure and violence if they told.

Hunter, of Middlesbrough, was finally traced by police in Tasmania after one of his young victims complained.

At Teesside Crown Court, he admitted 15 charges of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and 14 of making indecent photos of children.

http://www.thinkuknow.org/14_plus/ where to go if you need advice.

more research

Online grooming

Groomers can use social media sites, instant messaging apps including teen dating apps, or online gaming platforms to connect with a young person or child.

They can spend time learning about a young person’s interests from their online profiles and then use this knowledge to help them build up a relationship.

It’s easy for groomers to hide their identity online - they may pretend to be a child and then chat and become ‘friends’ with children they are targeting.

Groomers may look for:

usernames or comments that are flirtatious or have a sexual meaning
public comments that suggest a child has low self-esteem or is vulnerable.

Groomers don’t always target a particular child. Sometimes they will send messages to hundreds of young people and wait to see who responds.

Groomers no longer need to meet children in real life to abuse them. Increasingly, groomers are sexually exploiting their victims by persuading them to take part in online sexual activity.

There were 7,296 counselling sessions with young people who talked to ChildLine about online bullying and safety last year

Almost 1 in 4 young people have come across racist or hate messages online.

CEOP estimates that there were around50,000 individuals in the UK involved in downloading and sharing indecent images of children during 2012.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show police recorded a total of 372 incidents of grooming in England and Wales last year.

That was up 20 per cent on the 309 incidents recorded in 2010/11.

What Do Predators Do?

Predators who take part in child grooming often use the same tactics to reach their victims. Some of the common behaviors of the predator can include:

Manipulating the child’s thinking by becoming someone they think they can trust
Exploiting natural sexual curiosity
Driving a wedge between the victim and their family and friends
Complimenting the child often
Making promises of a better life
Asserting control over the child
Affirming their feelings and lending a sympathetic ear
Reassuring against insecurities

These behaviors are designed to build that level of trust required to allow for sexual assaults to happen. However, these predators won’t hesitate to revert to threatening behavior if they feel the child won’t comply or is second guessing the relationship.

Monday, 18 January 2016

Proposal

For my Theme I have chosen to do is about Online Safety mainly focusing on Grooming and why it is a big part of online safety and why people need to be careful with dealing with it as well. The reason I have chosen to do this is because with the online world the way it is people are getting affected by it every day without knowing who’s on the other screen saying all of this too you it may be someone you know however it could also be someone that does not know you and just wants to do nasty things with you so I think it’s important for parents to at least be aware of what’s going on in the online world but without checking their child’s pages for information about who they are adding online.

My work is mainly going feature Photoshop with me creating a poster on their adverting the danger of adding random people online though whatever it may be or even listening to people and downloading something they have told you to so I may have the poster of a girl like the one below saying something important about how it has affected there life but have some random facts around the side saying how it has affected people life in certain ways.

These images down below have inspired me to do about online safety (grooming) because it’s a big problem with teens this day and age because we live are life on the internet and we talk to thousands of people on the internet everyday so one of them people may be trying to grooming you and you just thing oh it’s another person I can talk to where as in there head they know exactly what they are doing and are trying to do everything to get to ‘know’ you.

One artsiest is Lauren Teike and she designed a whole website around online safety and specifically grooming so she is a very inspiration person with the whole online safety thing as she is telling you how to protect your self online and how parents can be more involved with there child online with out invading there personal space online so she is one artiest that inspired me.

Rick Reuben is another artist that inspired me with his piece at the bottom of the page.

This piece of work really inspired me with the fact it say'keep it are little secret' are really strong

work as the fact its there little secret suggest that they want nobody to know and this is affecting

people all of the world because they are afraid to say something about this crime

https://www.haikudeck.com/internet-safety--science-and-technology-presentation-r2bpb2Qsj2#

http://www.the-platform.org.uk/2012/05/12/sexual-grooming-a-degeneration-of-humanity/

http://censoredrickreuben.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/special-fx-and-grooming-gangs.html

Brain Storm

Online safety

pop up adds on your computer are sometimes virus.
People grooming people online so they can get to know someone and potential kidnap them.
people grooming young children to send them picture of what they want to see.
people often create fake account on facebook skype or what ever and add you trying to say they are someone they are not
make sure you know who you add on skype as its so easy to get your IP on skype and take you off the internet for a while and other things.
dont listen to people telling you to download things as you could be downloading something that leaves your webcam (if you have one) on permanently so they can always see though your webcam so they can see you when your sleeping and other things.
For this piece of work i think it will be best presented in a poster/power point.
1/3 of 9-19 year olds who go online at least once a week report having received unwanted sexual (31%) or nasty (33%) comments via e-mail, chat, IM (instant messenger) or text message. Only 7% of parents/carers think their child have received such
comments.* http://www.parentsprotect.co.uk/online_grooming.htm
http://www.parentsprotect.co.uk/positives_and_negatives.htm video link for 2 video on safety online.

Predators will:

- Prey on teen’s desire for romance, adventure, and sexual information
- Develop trust and secrecy: manipulate child by listening to and sympathizing with child’s problems and insecurities
- Affirm feelings and choices of child
- Exploit natural sexual curiosities of child
- Ease inhibitions by gradually introducing sex into conversations or exposing them to pornography
- Flatter and compliment the child excessively, sends gifts, and invests time, money, and energy to groom child
- Develop an online relationship that is romantic, controlling, and upon which the child becomes dependent
- Drive a wedge between the child and his or her parents and friends
- Make promises of an exciting, stress-free life, tailored to the youth’s desire
- Make threats, and often will use child pornography featuring their victims to blackmail them into silence
- http://www.internetsafety101.org/grooming.htm
- where i got the information from