These include: To support an organization to prevent online child abuse, click on the picture above. It'll navigate you to the website. Or alternatively, www.lightamillioncandles.com Just a quick update on what's been happening... - More than 400,000 candles have been lit at http://www.lightamillioncandles.com/. Many thanks to you who have participated and spread the word... But we still need more help! - On 19 Sep, two key members of the International Center for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) testified before the US Senate on the work of the Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography, and what we're combating commercial child pornography. (The LIGHT A MILLION CANDLES campaign is part of the Financial Coalition's gameplan to raise awareness on the horrendous issue of child porn and to choke the commercial viability of these websites so that the abuse of the children will stop.) Check out the following link if you wish for more details. http://www.icmec.org/missingkids/se..._X1&PageId=2788 Here in Singapore: - If you'd been involved at the recent IMF, you'd have seen the LIGHT A MILLION CANDLES tv ad on the tv screens in the main convention areas and elevators. If you haven't, check out http://www.lightamillioncandles.com/ or keep your eyes peeled for print ads and/or tv spots on CNN, MTV, the BBC, Discovery Channel, Time Magazine and Readers' Digest. These channels have kindly donated us media space for this cause and we hope to get more media coverage in the near future. - In coming weeks: Hopefully, we'd hit the tipping point so that the Singapore financial coalition against child porn will be formally formed and announced! Keeping our fingers x-ed! The fact is that child pornography is a topic nobody likes to discuss. Who wants to think about people peddling images of toddlers/infants under age 3 in child porn sites? But our silence is what feeds the pornographers' need for secrecy. We should start thinking about how our children are being abused, violated, and betrayed. Think of your children, your nephews, nieces, the kid-next-door, your colleague's precocious 2-year-old... This is definitely an issue that concerns all of us. Thanks for reading this. Cheers! "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."- Albert Einstein
What is child sex abuse?
A child sex abuser (commonly referred to as a paedophile) is someone who is sexually attracted to a child or children and acts upon those desires.
Why do Child sex abusers like to use the internet to contact children?
Child sex abusers find the internet an easier place to participate in a range of child sexual abuse activity including contact with children due to the anonymity of the medium. They will often lie and pretend to be younger than they are or people other than themselves, and find a sense of security by operating from the safety of their own homes. They have been known to set up bogus email accounts and chat personas to mask their identity online.
What are children at risk of, from child sex abusers, online?
There are a number of actions which these adults will engage in online.
-Swapping child abuse images in chat areas or through instant messenger with other adults or young people and forming networks with other child abusers to share tips on how to groom more effectively and how to avoid being caught.
-Swapping personal information of children that they have collected with other abusers.
-Participating in online communities such as blogs, forums and chat rooms with the intention to groom children, collect sexually explicit images and meet them to have sex.
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