April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, here's what's being done to protect children and what parents should do.
According to the FBI, every year thousands of children become victims of kidnappings, violent attacks, sexual abuse and online predators and that's one reason the FBI established the Violent Crimes Against Children program.
“What we’ve seen is that these online offenders are using increased levels of sophistication, particularly the ones who may have been caught before,” he explained.“Ten, 15 years ago there were only the most technologically sophisticated offenders who would do that, but now it’s becoming more mainstream and so what the FBI has had to do is we continually adapt to that, and we’re spending a lot of our time where they’re spending their time,” said Rao.
Last year, according to Walsh, there were more than 30 million reports made to their tip line about children being sexually abused. The FBI encourages anyone with information about sextortion, online predators, or sexual abuse of children to call 1-800-CALLFBI or submit a tip online by CLICKING HERE.
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