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Blunt Ads for Teenagers Warn of Net Predators

A new ad campaign warns teenage girls about the danger of online sexual predators. One in five children received a sexual solicitation in 1998 and 1999, according to a survey of 1,500 regular Internet users age 10 to 17, conducted for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Justice Department. The study was done by the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire.

Read the whole story at The New York Times, June 8, 2005 »

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