Hansen's new book takes readers beyond the 'Predator'.

Chris Hansen is the Dateline's correspondent for the "To Catch a Predator" series. Since the Dateline reports have aired, the show has exposed over 200 hundred potential child predators in its stings. His book, released March 15, takes you beyond the broadcast into a shadowy world.

I have read the excerpts on this book and seen the show and the facts about the show are listed above.

I have done several months of studies and talking to victims and one of the abuse problems in out society today are coming from the internet. The sexual predators who are invading our lives and stalking our children and not just within your home, relative, neighbor or friend, they are in your home on your computer.

The case that I became interested in telling you about here is the one about is the one involving MySpace and the dangers of what your local Internet Service Provider is offering to your kids.

Their wake-up call to the dangers of sexual abuse cases driven by social networking sites like MySpace, cracked wide open for these two detectives because a 13 year-old was stuck by a bolt of fear and balked at getting into a car with a man she met online.  “Marisa” (the detectives asked that we protect her identity) was at a swimming pool in a Virginia suburb of Washington, DC, on August 24, 2005.

She had agreed to meet a man named Joey Dobbs—whose screen name was buttsecks just outside the pool. He was waiting for her in his car, but when she saw him, she panicked and handed her cell phone to a lifeguard saying, “Tell him you’re my mom and that he should never call me again.”

Police were called to investigate and after a few days, the case was turned over to Detective Peter Charles who was with the “PCASO” team, an acronym for the Protecting Children Against Sexual Offenders unit at the Fairfax County Police Department. The unit was not yet up to speed on the dangers of social networking sites like MySpace because it hadn’t hit any cases.  “If you told me ten years ago that someone could go online and have access to information about thousands of kids, I’d never have believed you,” Charles said. Charles has years of experience with sexual abuse cases and crimes against children. He was aware of the trouble kids got onto with chat rooms and he knew about the peril of online sexual predators. What he didn’t know was that social networking sites were giving them unprecedented access to teens.  MySpace, Xanga, Facebook, Bebo, had not really crossed his radar screen yet. Just after Labor Day, 2005, that all changed.

Detective Charles interviewed Marisa who explained the online chats that culminated in the scheduled meeting at the pool with Joey Dobbs or buttsecks. Marisa told him she thought Joey was the assistant of a woman named Jennifer Ash, whom she’d  met on MySpace,  a few days before the encounter at the swimming pool.

“Jennifer Ash,” a voluptuous looking brunette who claimed she was 21, described herself this way in her MySpace profile. “Born in the DC area, lived in LA for the last 10 years, and looking to make some friends. I have a boyfriend so I’m not looking for anything with any guys. SORRY GUYS!” 

She said she wanted to meet nice girls in the Fairfax area. “Anyone that would like to go eat some sushi, go catch a movie…” Sounds simple enough, right? …Marisa had no way of knowing that Joey and Jen were one and the same.

There are dozens of other cases like these listed and now we need to read the stories, find the facts and know what to do.Pay attention to the reality , we need to protect our children!

Protecting your children should be a natural instinct for parents.

 

My Thoughts!

Over time and many years child abuse has grown and keeps growing by the minute in our society.Experience and statistics have shown us that pedophiles, sex offenders, child abusers and murderers cannot be rehabilitated.

It is a sexual predisposition, not a treatable psychological condition.

It is an emotion and action that occurs in advance that makes these monsters act in a particular way.

Utah, must find a way to protect our children from abuse, protect the ones who have already been abused and give something back to them that has been taken from their lives.

Help and assist the victims and families that the legal systems have let down for years. I know of a few cases, personally that were thrown out , passed by, or evidence was not handled correctly or a drug related case where three children are separated from each other now , in separate homes, because the state did not address the issue correctly the first time.

It is my intent to help the people of Utah understand Social Service Issues and the definitions of child abuse that they are suppose to follow but don't.  Our Child Protection laws need to be addressed We do not want to give these monsters another chance to hurt, abuse or kill another child and this is the message that we as Utahns need to stand up for, our children have the right to feel safe in their own homes, neighborhoods, and schools.

I am adding new information daily, because abuse is happening daily, by the minute, somewhere and we need to stop this some how. There is an end to the means somewhere and when we stay silent we are allowing it to happen.

The fight to change the laws will continue until the results are mandatory and we can believe in the law and justice system once again.