The new on line predator is not the dirty old man with a rusty old van who goes into teen chat rooms in order to lure your child to a motel room or in his van. The new age predator is more likely a lonely middle aged housewife who is divorced or otherwise lonely who sees the bright young man as the son she never had or someone "who understands her" and can be used to further whatever concerns or issues she has in her adult life.
The danger with this new kind of predator is not so much one of a sexual nature, although that may soon be the result of their on line interaction, but one of exploitation. The new predator is one who uses her influence as a respected adult or mother figure to persuade the child to use his knowledge to commit crimes that would cause an adult to be jailed for most of their adult life.
The predator does not care the damage she may have done to the future of the child she has exploited. She only cares about her personal agenda, her adult issues and her adult games.
The predator is unaware that she may have taken away the moral compass that would come into play that would guide the child when he becomes an adult.
As I delve deeper into the recent internet smear campaign of which I was the target, I have seen indications that not one but several women have indeed enlisted vunerable, lonely and "misunderstood" teenage males as part of their illicit agenda.
Modern parents have come complacent using the computer and the internet as the new babysitter for the new generation of "latch key kids" in place of the passive television set of the past.
The internet has become the home of "virtual street gangs" who roam websites and chat rooms for the sole purpose of wreaking destruction for the sole purpose of the LULZ,
In my case, these street gangs are likely being paid for their services. Some of these payments or fees for service include the purchase of internet toys such as Ventrillo (something like skype) computer peripherals, auto accessories or cold hard cash.
What is there about a multimedia chatter who owns a news van that would cause someone to pour lavish amounts of money for the sole purpose of casting him off the internet? The answer to that I do not know. I do however, intend to find out. So far the direction of my investigation leads to recent events and high profile cases in Central Florida. I sincerely hope my instincts are wrong.
Considering who some of the people are that are behind these efforts, I am afraid that my instincts may, in fact, be correct. One would hope the the efforts of these predators and their teenaged recruits do not allow the guilty to go unpunished.
Stay Tuned
