Cyber Safety:
Statistics Parents Should Know Regarding Child Pornographers and the Internet
- 100,000 websites offer illegal child pornography (Internet Filter Review, 2003)
- 8 percent of all emails are porn related (Internet Filter Review, 2003)
- 25 percent of total search engine requests are porn related (Web Sense, 2003)
- 86 percent of rapists studied admitted regular use of porn with 57 percent admitting imitating pornographic scenes in commission of sex crimes (Marshall, 1985)
- Pornography, especially child pornography, is used by pedophiles for three reasons: 1) to stimulate themselves; 2) to destroy the consciences and lower the inhibitions and resistance to sexual activity in their intended child victims and 3) to teach a child what to model in the sexual encounter with the adult (Los Angeles Police Department)
- In a study of arrested child pornography possessors, 40 percent had both sexually victimized children and were in possession of child pornography. Of those arrested between 2000 and 2001, 83 percent had images involving children between the ages 6-12; 39 percent had images of children between ages 3 and 5; 19 percent had images of infants and toddlers under age 3 (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)
Statistics Parents Should Know Regarding Cyber Safety
- Four percent of all youth Internet users have received aggressive sexual solicitations, which threatened to spill over into "real life". (Online Victimization of Youth: Five Years Later, 2006)
- The predominant sex crime scenario doesn't involve molesters posing on line as children; only 5 percent of offenders concealed the fact that they were adults from their victims; almost 80 percent of offenders were explicit about their intentions with youth and in 73 percent of crimes, youth go to meet the offender on multiple occasions for multiple sexual encounters (National Juvenile Online Victimization Study, 2007)
- 16 percent of teens considered meeting someone they've only talked with online and 8 percent have actually met someone they only knew online. (Online Victimization of Youth: Five Years Later, 2006)
- 52 percent of teens have given out personal information to someone they don't know offline including 24 percent who have shared personal photos and/or physical descriptions of themselves. (Harris Interactive-McAfee, 2008)
- 14 percent of 10th thru 12th graders have accepted an invitation to meet an online stranger in person (Rochester Institute of Technology, 2008)
- 13 percent of 2nd-3rd grade students report that they used the Internet to talk to people they do not know and 11 percent report having been asked to describe private things about their body; 10 percent have been exposed to private things about someone else's body. (Rochester, 2008) 69 percent of teens regularly receive personal messages online from people they don't know (TRU, 2007)
- Four percent of all youth Internet users in 2005 said online solicitors asked them for nude or sexually explicit photographs of themselves. (Online Victimization of Youth: Five Years Later, 2006
