Stop Child Predators

Check out this great piece in the National Review in collaboration with Taxpayers Protection Alliance -

The Right Way to Protect Children Online | National Review Pretending that platforms alone can end online child abuse does not make it so.

Hot off the press! Check out our new white paper, “Adapting to the Future of Child Predation Why Criminal Justice Must Be at The Core of Any Effort to Prevent Child Exploitation Online” -

White Paper | Stop Child Predators We are a group of experts in child welfare and child protection who have become increasingly concerned that proposed policy development in child exploitation has largely failed to address prevention, support law enforcement, or make the critical connection between digital and real-world exploitation...

An informative read from our friends at The Well News and

Lantern Rescue Seeks to Put an End to Human Trafficking ASHEBORO, N.C. — It started, as so many of the larger cases do, as a single undercover operation. For years, the Dominican Republic has been known to have two classes of s*x-working establishments. One class, very public and fairly regulated, is one in which s*x workers, for whatever their reasons...

Stop Child Predators began in 2006, after 9-year old Jessica Lunsford was kidnapped, r***d, and murdered by a twice-convicted registered s*x offender who was living at a different, unregistered address. At the time, most child s*x offenders served only three months of their seven-year sentences, according to research from the Department of Justice.

We took action, and through our state advocacy, crafted The Sexual Offenses Against Children Act, which mandates a minimum 25-year prison sentence and lifetime electronic monitoring for adults convicted of lewd and lascivious acts against a child under the age of 12. That legislation passed in 46 states.

More than 15 years later, child victimization has dramatically changed from stranger abductions across the street to grooming and luring across the world through the internet. An analysis by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children found that 98% of reported online offenders were seemingly unknown to the child offline. Additionally, online predation incidences increased by 97.5% between 2019 and 2020.

We want to make sure children’s safety online is a big part of that conversation.

And so, we have identified key policy areas for meaningful impact, expanded our leadership, and are working to galvanize our community of children’s advocates, like you.

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