FBI Warns Kids Throughout The Country About Online Safety
Posted by Greg Writer on May 30, 2007
In honor of National Missing Children’s Day, the FBI recently held events at elementary and middle schools throughout the country about Internet safety.
According to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, the FBI fingerprinted and photographed students to help protect them from predators.
Special Agent Peter Brust told the Tribune that “on any given day statistics show about 2,200 children are reported missing, some of them are found and some are not.” Brust said that “it’s important we have updated photos and things in the event that a child goes missing.”
Seventh- and eighth-grade students were given DNA swab kits and safety booklets.
Agent Brust noted that this was the first time the FBI held the event and stressed that the Internet poses a terrible threat to today’s kids.
“The Internet is the Industrial Revolution for pedophiles,” Brust said. “At any given time there are something like 30 million kids online at a time. Predators go where the prey is.”
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