JANUARY IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING AWARENESS MONTH
Safety Tip Week 1: Enable Privacy Settings on all Electronic Devices
Human Trafficking Safety Tip Week 2: Use Discretion on Social Media Sites
Speak with your children and teenagers about posting on social networking sites, to be cautious not to provide unnecessary information regarding daily activities or close friends and family. Human traffickers use online information to build trust via the internet with the intent to commit a sexual offense or abduction.
This is a broad category of online exploitation and includes sextortion, in which a child is being groomed to take sexually explicit images and/or ultimately meet face-to-face with someone for sexual purposes, or to engage in a sexual conversation online or, in some instances, to sell/trade the child’s sexual images.
This type of victimization takes place across every platform, social media, messaging apps, gaming platforms. Children and teens may not take the first steps in disclosing to you an uncomfortable online interaction.
