Teen Girls Help FBI Nab Cyber Stalkers
At any given moment, authorities say, there are an estimated 20,000 sexual predators online, trading child pornography and using chat rooms to lure unsuspecting young teenagers.
FBI agents are online too, posing as teens to snare the pedophiles. But many predators know that FBI agents are patrolling the Web, trying to dupe them.
So three years ago, in an effort to teach FBI agents how to convincingly pass and communicate as a young teen, the agency turned to a new group of experts — teenage girls.
"You really have a rude awakening in the sense that you have no idea what it's like to be a teenager right now," said Stacey Marie Bradley, a supervising special agent for the FBI's Innocent Images National Initiative, which in the past decade has put more than 4,000 online child pornographers and pedophiles in jail.
An FBI agent involved in tracking pedophiles realized the program was falling short after he took at peak at his teenager daughter's online chats and was confused by the basic chat lingo.
posted by Fergie @ 6/29/2005 07:25:00 AM
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