Monthly Newsletter:

• 12 issues of our kids fighting back self-defense and awareness tips newsletter e-mailed every month to you. Each month your news letter will be jam packed with awesome awareness and self-defense lessons that will empower you and your children forever. Here is some of what you’ll learn in your newsletter:
• Learn over 25 predator lures and the counter measures for each one.
• Self-defense and escape tactics, tactics that could save your child’s life.
• Stories and comments from other child alert members and more.
• Follow-up quiz to test your child’s awareness knowledge.


SAMPLE:

Janurary '07 Issue

From the desk of Tony Leo
 
Hi everyone,
 
As you know I’ve been teaching self defense and awareness for over 35 years, and by my teachings have empowered more children and parents that I know are more aware and prepared then ever before that will never fall prey to a sexual predator. However there’s a new kid on the block (since around 1998) that we need to address.
 
Online – Predators
As a result of the rapid development of the Internet, sexual predators have found that they no longer need to restrict their activities to just parks, school grounds, or malls. Instead, they can anonymously roam freely from chat room to chat room cruising for unsuspecting kids. With the increase use of the Internet by millions of children, an estimated 70 million children are now online. It has become easier than ever for predators to use computer technology to victimize children. The nature of Internet crimes presents complex new challenges for law enforcement agencies.
 
It is nearly impossible to estimate how many children are sexually victimized on the Internet. What a more inviting place for a predatory child molester than an anonymous, immediate, private, interactive network. The exploitation takes various forms including:
 
· On-line chat rooms to openly solicit sexual favors from on-line users they know to be children. (1 in 4 children are solicited).
· Establishing friendships with children that later lead to meetings and sexual victimization, sometimes hundreds of miles away. (1 in 5 children have been sent pornography).
· Communication with other child molesters, discussing and exchanging child pornography and children they have sexually abused.
 
Many parents and educators are concerned about the ease and availability of graphically explicit material online. Sexual predators and websites that advocate sex between children and adults under the guide of “loving relationships” represent a great danger on the Internet. These sites attempt to defeat our carefully taught “danger awareness” defense. They also try to brainwash children into believing that child/adult sex is okay. Even more frightening is that members of these sites aren’t satisfied with just chatting with children online, they are committed to luring them into actual face-to-face meetings.
 
With so many youth online and vulnerable to predators, it is extremely important for parents to know as much as possible about Internet crime against our children.
What should parents do to protect their online children?
· Watch who they are in communication with.
· Don’t allow our children to give out personal information online. Period.
· Have rules for what they can say and can’t say and do in chat rooms or instant message services. If they keep an AOL “Buddy List,” know who their “buddies” are.
· Discuss specifically with your children where they can and cannot go on the Web.
· Never let your children meet with anyone they have been in contact with over the Internet.
· Buy and use blocking and/or screening software.
· Learn to monitor the history tracking function on your child’s browser.
· Report to law enforcement any strange communications you observe.
 
This is the cyber equivalent of real life. In real life, you know where your kids are and you keep them from dangerous places. Now apply those same rules to their time on the Internet.
 
Sincerely,
Tony Leo
Child Alert U.S.A.