I had a very similar thing happen to me with my daughter several months ago. Some guy had sent her a picture and he looked about my age. I sent him a polite but firm e-mail letting him know if he ever contacted my 14 year old again, by whatever means, I would report him to the authorities. If it's on AOL, I would report him immediately. He may have other complaints, and AOL has pretty strict Terms of Service (TOS) standards.
I also had a chat with my daughter and let her know that I can check on every site she visits, every e-mail she gets, whether deleted or not, every file she downloads, and many other things. If something happens, she's the first to tell me, cause she knows I'll find out.
Kids like to experiment and their curious, but you need to let them know what the limits are and follow through. It's called parenting, so don't ya'll give me crap about invasion of privacy.
Let's say a young girl enters a chat room (without consent and never has done this before) and meets some pervert... I am talking about a young and naive teenage girl. This is serious... what do you do? Who can you contact? Is that info still left on our computer? Come on you computer geeks (Hey I am one too but not in this situation).... this is a legit question so please answer with legit answers... this is a girl that is dear to my heart.
I don't mean to freak out but I hear about so many pedophiles out there... I don't want this girl (who blocked his pm's) or any other young girls being hurt by this guy
Dear Ashley, If it was AOL, you can send them an email ( or while chatting, I think there is an alert button). In any case, they would be the people I would contact first. They have the account names and contact stuff. It helps if you have the text that revealed this sick bastard as perverted. If not, still give them as much info as you and the girl has. I am not sure if there is such a thing as Internet police, but I think there is an FBI division that handles Internet stuff. Perhaps their site has the different departments listed. Good Luck
Call me. Monet is dead right about AOL. However there are other less moderated chats out there. I have moderated one for 5 years now, so I have some contacts in other areas. Call me if you want to talk about this in more detail.
I had a very similar thing happen to me with my daughter several months ago. Some guy had sent her a picture and he looked about my age. I sent him a polite but firm e-mail letting him know if he ever contacted my 14 year old again, by whatever means, I would report him to the authorities. If it's on AOL, I would report him immediately. He may have other complaints, and AOL has pretty strict Terms of Service (TOS) standards.
I also had a chat with my daughter and let her know that I can check on every site she visits, every e-mail she gets, whether deleted or not, every file she downloads, and many other things. If something happens, she's the first to tell me, cause she knows I'll find out.
Kids like to experiment and their curious, but you need to let them know what the limits are and follow through. It's called parenting, so don't ya'll give me crap about invasion of privacy.
Did you basically want to report the guy to the authorities or were you afraid he might come looking for your friend ? For AIM and stuff i'm sure that you can report that stuff to aol or write to the sysop of whatever site they were on. They'll probably have a better idea as to what can be done, it's probably nothing new to them, but i doubt the sysops can do much on their own.
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