Talking About Internet Abduction Of Children Part 2
To outlines some scenarios, say you child is logged into the Internet. Since his peers are talking about myscape.com or Friendster.com, which are social networks where people interact, he will log onto that site. Private emails and chats, posts and bulletins are all available for those who have an account and thus your child can easily make his account online and chat with others online.
Since the social networks described above allow users to search for people everywhere, one can easily find you through that search engine and say someone wants to be the online friend of your child. This is often how criminals operate, in that they disguise themselves into the friendly type to encourage the child to feel at ease.
This process can take a while, because the child is comfortable with his online friend and thus, the criminal needs to be very patient in this respect. At some point, the friends might want to meet one another and therefore, the cyber criminal will do his best to convince the unsuspecting person that they need to meet. Therefore, a meeting is set up, and thus the criminal can abduct the child.
Another scenario would involve the instance when a child would socialize online with other people. A potential harmful influence on the child might result in changes in the behavior and aggressiveness towards the other if the child is prompted by his friend to act in a way.
The criminal might ask about credit cards, personal information, addresses or even bank accounts. Since the child is unsuspecting about a lot of things, he can be easily lured into giving such personal details to his 'friend' therefore, by trusting so much his online friend, the child might end up getting the whole family into trouble.
Once the address of the family is revealed, the online criminal can now trace down the family, monitor what happens in it and act at the right time, in the right sport. There would be a perfect situation when the child would be alone at home and the abductor would then be able to make a visit the house and steal the child or anything else priceless.
If your child has suddenly gone missing, the first thing you should do is to go to the police and report the unfortunate event. They will trace or monitor your child if there is any outward sign, sighting or clue regarding the location of your child. Also, you need to go back to the Internet and see who was the mysterious friend in your child's life. Thus you can receive valuable information from more than one source.
Keep the mental coolness you have so that you can judge things from an objective point of view. Experts would advise you not to submit to the requirements posed by the abductor, if he decides to communicate with you. You will be only giving way to potential crimes in the future by responding to that query. What you need to do nonetheless is to cooperate with the local authorities.
Online abduction, while a seemingly common problem these days, can be prevented from happening if you safeguard your child well.