Online child exploitation reports surge in COVID-19 era

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    Online child exploitation reports surge in COVID-19 era

    Police arrested a man this week, accusing him of strangling a 14-year-old boy to death after luring him out of his home in Connecticut. The family says the two met over Snapchat. It’s a parent’s worst nightmare, and experts say the pandemic and isolation makes kids more vulnerable. “We have really seen an explosion of reports of child sexual exploitation,” said Yiota Souras of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Souras says for the first half of this year, reports of child porn, trafficking, and other types of exploitation across the country rose by 90 percent, up ...


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