The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in their most recent Annual Report provide these frightening figures:
1 in 5 girls and 1 in 10 boys will be sexually victimized before they reach the age of 18
Only 1 in 3 of them will tell anyone
1 in 7 children who are regular Internet users receive sexual solicitations online
1 in 3 is exposed to unwanted sexual material
1 in 25 receives a request to meet someone in real life that they met online.
800,000 children are reported missing every year in the U.S.
58,000 of those are abducted by nonfamily members with the primary motive sexual
115 of those cases the child is abducted by a stranger and killed, held for ransom, or taken with the intention to keep.
Protect your children take the National Center for Exploited Children‘Internet Safety Quiz.
